János György Szilágyi (16 July 1918 – 7 January 2016) was a Hungarian historian who was a specialist in ancient

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. He died at the age of 97 in 2016.Elhunyt Szilágyi János György (Magyarmuzeumok.hu), 2016. január 7.
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Selected publications

*''Ancient art''. Budapest Museum of Fine Arts,

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, 2003. *''In search of Pelasgian ancestors: The 1861 Hungarian excavations in the Apennines''. Atlantisz, Budapest, 2004.

References

20th-century Hungarian historians 1918 births Writers from Budapest 2016 deaths Hungarian classical scholars {{Classical-scholar-stub