swap_horiz E. A. Wallis Budge Alternatives

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Franz Boas

Franz Boas was a 19th-century archaeologist and anthropologist whose work fundamentally shaped the field of American ant...

19TH Century Culture North America Anthropology

9.7 Brilliant

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Jean-François Champollion

Jean-François Champollion was a French archaeologist whose work fundamentally changed our understanding of ancient Egypt...

French 19TH Century Egyptology Rosetta Stone

9.7 Brilliant

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Flinders Petrie

Flinders Petrie was a pioneering archaeologist central to the development of modern Egyptology. His meticulous technique...

19TH Century British Palestine Egyptology

9.6 Brilliant

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Howard Carter

Howard Carter was a 20th-century British archaeologist whose meticulous work led to the unprecedented discovery of Tutan...

20TH Century British Excavation Egyptology

9.5 Brilliant

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Colin Renfrew

Colin Renfrew was a British archaeologist renowned for his pioneering use of radiocarbon dating and archaeogenetic analy...

Modern European British Aegean

9.2 Excellent

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Ian Hodder

Ian Hodder is a British archaeologist renowned for pioneering post-processual archaeology in the 1980s. His work challen...

Modern Theory British Post Processual

9.2 Excellent

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Bruce Trigger

Bruce Trigger was a prominent Canadian archaeologist specializing in Egyptology during the 20th century. His work signif...

History Theory Canadian 20TH Century

9.1 Excellent

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Mary Leakey

Mary Leakey was a British archaeologist specializing in paleoanthropology. Her work significantly advanced our understan...

20TH Century British Paleoanthropology Hominin

9.0 Excellent

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Kathleen Kenyon

Kathleen Kenyon was a prominent 20th-century British archaeologist specializing in Near Eastern cultures. Her rigorous e...

20TH Century Near East British Methodology

9.0 Excellent

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Eduard Seler

Eduard Seler was a German archaeologist and philologist primarily known for his extensive work in Mesoamerica during the...

German 19TH Century Mesoamerica Aztec

8.8 Great

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John Lubbock

British naturalist and politician who coined the terms 'Paleolithic' and 'Neolithic' in his 1865 book 'Pre-historic Time...

19TH Century British Neolithic Paleolithic

8.6 Great

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Alexander Cunningham

British archaeologist Alexander Cunningham was the first Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India, investi...

India 19TH Century British Asian

8.6 Great

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Gertrude Bell

Gertrude Bell was a British archaeologist and diplomat who mapped sites in the Middle East and was instrumental in estab...

20TH Century Mesopotamia British Museum

8.5 Great

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Austen Henry Layard

Austen Henry Layard was a British archaeologist who excavated the ancient Assyrian cities of Nimrud and Nineveh in the 1...

19TH Century British Assyriology Nimrud

8.4 Great

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Arthur Evans

Arthur Evans was a British archaeologist who excavated the site of Knossos on the island of Crete from 1900 onwards, unc...

Classical 19TH Century British Minoan

8.2 Great

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Gertrude Caton-Thompson

British archaeologist Gertrude Caton-Thompson is celebrated for her excavations in Egypt and her 1929 work at the Great...

20TH Century British Egyptology Predynastic

8.0 Great

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Karl Richard Lepsius

Karl Richard Lepsius was a pioneering German Egyptologist who led the 1842 Prussian expedition to Egypt and Nubia, metic...

German 19TH Century Expedition Egyptology

7.9 Good

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Auguste Mariette

Auguste Mariette was a French archaeologist who founded the Egyptian Department of Antiquities in 1858 and famously disc...

French 19TH Century Museum Egyptology

6.5 Fair

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Margaret Murray

Margaret Murray was a prominent British Egyptologist and archaeologist who worked extensively with Flinders Petrie and s...

Mining 20TH Century British Tomb

5.5 Mediocre

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Giovanni Battista Belzoni

Giovanni Battista Belzoni was an Italian explorer and pioneer archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities who famously relocat...

Italian 19TH Century Explorer Transport

5.2 Mediocre