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

2

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

3

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

4

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

10

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

John Lubbock was a British banker, politician, naturalist, and archaeologist who contributed to the nineteenth-century s...

19TH Century British Neolithic Paleolithic

8.6 Great

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Alexander Cunningham

Alexander Cunningham was a British army engineer and archaeologist who became the first Director-General of the Archaeol...

India 19TH Century British Asian

8.6 Great

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Gertrude Bell

Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) was a British archaeologist, diplomat, and writer who played a significant role in the formati...

20TH Century Mesopotamia British Museum

8.5 Great

14

Austen Henry Layard

Austen Henry Layard (1817–1894) was a British traveller, archaeologist, and diplomat who excavated the Neo-Assyrian site...

19TH Century British Assyriology Nimrud

8.4 Great

15

Arthur Evans

Arthur Evans was a British archaeologist best known for excavating Knossos on the Greek island of Crete beginning in 190...

Classical 19TH Century British Minoan

8.2 Great

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Gertrude Caton-Thompson

Gertrude Caton-Thompson (1888–1985) was a pioneering British archaeologist known for her rigorous fieldwork in Egypt and...

20TH Century British Egyptology Predynastic

8.0 Great

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Karl Richard Lepsius

Karl Richard Lepsius was a prominent 19th-century German Egyptologist and a foundational figure in the modern study of a...

German 19TH Century Expedition Egyptology

7.9 Good

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Auguste Mariette

Auguste Mariette was a French Egyptologist and archaeologist who worked in Egypt during the nineteenth century. In 1858...

French 19TH Century Museum Egyptology

6.5 Fair

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Margaret Murray

Margaret Murray was a British Egyptologist, archaeologist, and folklorist whose career connected university teaching, mu...

Mining 20TH Century British Tomb

5.5 Mediocre

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Giovanni Battista Belzoni

Giovanni Battista Belzoni was an Italian explorer, engineer, and collector active in Egypt during the early nineteenth c...

Italian 19TH Century Explorer Transport

5.2 Mediocre