Background
Banks, Edgar James was born on May 23, 1866 in Sunderland, Massachusetts, United States. Son of John Randolph and Julia Maria (Dunklee) Banks.
Banks, Edgar James was born on May 23, 1866 in Sunderland, Massachusetts, United States. Son of John Randolph and Julia Maria (Dunklee) Banks.
Student Amherst, 1886-1887. Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1893, Master of Arts, 1895. Doctor of Philosophy, University Breslau, 1897.
American consul, Bagdad, Turkey, 1897-1898. Organized, 1899, expedition to excavate Babylonian city of Ur, but Sultan refused permission after 2 years waiting. Acting professor ancient history Robert College, Constantinople, 1902-1903.
Private secretary to American minister to Turkey, 1903.
Excavated Babylonian ruin, Bismya, 1903, for University of Chicago, discovering several thousand inscribed objects from 4500 British Columbia to 2800 British Columbia and the white statue of King David, a pre-Babylonian king of 4500 British Columbia (oldest statue in the world). Also much earlier ruins.
Field director of Babylonian expedition and instructor Turkish and Semitic languages, University of Chicago, 1903-1906. Professor Oriental languages and archaeology Toledo University, 1909.
Lecturer on Babylonia, Arabia, Turkey, et cetera, since 1906.
Director Sacred Films, Incorporated., 1921-1922. President Seminole Films Company, Incorporated. Climbed to summit of Mount Ararat, 17,212 foot, August 20, 1912 (1st American).
Crossed the Arabian desert by camel.
1912, on an exploring expedition Author: Babylonische Hymnen der Berliner Sammlung, 1897. Jonah in Fact and Fancy, 1899.
Bismya, or The Lost City of Adab, 1912. Bible and the Spade, 1913.
Armenian Princess. 1914.
Seven Wonders of the Ancinet World, 1917. Also several hundred articles on archaeological and other subjects. Address: Physician organization Box 519, Eustis, Florida
Married Emma L. Lyford, July 16, 1893. Married second, Minja Miksich de Also Lukavecz. Children: Edgar de Miksich, Daphne.