Albert H Longhurst

Albert H Longhurst (b. 1876; d. 1955) was a British archaeologist and art historian specialising in the arts of southern India and Sri Lanka, especially Pallava architecture, the ruins of Hampi and the excavations at Nagarjunakonda.

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