Keith De Vries
Keith Robert DeVries (January 2, 1937–July 16, 2006) was a prominent archaeologist and expert on the Phrygian city of Gordium, in what is now Turkey. He was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
As an excavator, DeVries worked at Ischia and the excavations at Ancient Corinth. His primary work was at Gordium; there he directed the excavations from 1977 to 1987.
DeVries earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan and his doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania. He taught at Pennsylvania for his career, as well as work at its Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in the Mediterranean section.
DeVries died of cancer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2006.
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