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Herbert Joseph Weld Blundell (1852 – 5 February 1935) was an English traveller in Africa, archaeologist, philanthropist and yachtsman. He shortened his surname from Weld Blundell to Weld, in 1924. ==Life to 1922 == He was educated at Stonyhurst College. He travelled to Persia in 1891, then for a decade 1894 to 1905 in North Africa and East Africa.〔(St John Simpson, Bushire and Beyond: Some Early Archaeological Discoveries in Iran (PDF), p. 12 ).〕 He was a correspondent for the ''Morning Post'' during the Second Boer War.〔Wright, p. 70.〕 Expeditions included *1891-2 Persepolis, with Lorenzo Giuntini, making casts of the reliefs〔http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/forgottenempire/palaces/reliefs.html〕 *1894-5 Libya and Cyrenaica, creating a photographic record〔Donald M. Bailey. ''Photographs of Libya'', 2. Libyan Studies: Volume 27 (1996), pp. 67-70.〕〔Herbert Weld-Blundell, ''A visit to Cyrene in 1895'', Annu. Brit Sch. Athens, 2, 1906, pp. 113-140.〕 *1898 Abyssinia Expedition with Lord Lovat and Reginald Koettlitz〔http://www.dover.gov.uk/museum/focus/focus1.asp〕〔Richard Snailham, (" Europeans on the Blue Nile Region" ), Anglo-Ethiopian Society, 1992 (accessed 29 June 2009)〕 *1904-5 Around Addis Ababa〔 *1922 Weld Blundell Expedition, found the Weld-Blundell Prism, now in the Ashmolean Museum〔http://www.ashmolean.org/ash/faqs/q001/〕 In 1921-1922 he presented the Weld Blundell Collection to the University of Oxford.〔http://cdli.ucla.edu/collections/ashmolean/ashmolean_intro.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Herbert Weld Blundell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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