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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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Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss was a prominent 20th-century French anthropologist and archaeologist. His work, particularly his dev...

French Theory 20TH Century Anthropology

9.6 Brilliant

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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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Jacques Boucher de Perthes

Jacques Boucher de Perthes (1788–1868) was a French customs official and antiquarian whose discoveries in the Somme Vall...

French 19TH Century Antiquity Paleolithic

8.7 Great

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Alfred V. Kidder

Alfred V. Kidder was an American archaeologist whose fieldwork helped establish systematic methods for studying the anci...

American 20TH Century North America Peabody

8.6 Great

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Max Uhle

Max Uhle was a German archaeologist whose systematic fieldwork helped establish the chronological study of pre-Columbian...

German 19TH Century South America Inca

8.6 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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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

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John Lloyd Stephens

John Lloyd Stephens (1805–1852) was an American explorer, diplomat, and travel writer who conducted two pivotal expediti...

American 19TH Century Explorer Maya

8.4 Great

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James B. Griffin

James Bennett Griffin (1905–1997) was a prominent American archaeologist who served as the director of the University of...

American 20TH Century North America Mississippi

8.4 Great

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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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Robert Koldewey

Robert Koldewey was a German architect and archaeologist best known for directing the excavations of the ancient city of...

German Architecture 19TH Century Assyriology

8.2 Great

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Karl Butzer

Karl Butzer was a German-American geographer and archaeologist who significantly advanced the field of geoarchaeology. H...

Environmental 20TH Century Egypt German American

8.2 Great

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Vance Haynes

Vance Haynes is an American geoarchaeologist specializing in the geological contexts of early human occupation in North...

American 20TH Century North America Geoarchaeology

8.2 Great

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Timothy Pauketat

Timothy Pauketat is an American archaeologist and anthropology professor recognized for his extensive research on the Mi...

Modern American North America Mississippian

8.2 Great

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David Hurst Thomas

David Hurst Thomas is an American archaeologist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History. His fieldwork inc...

Modern American North America Mission

8.2 Great

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David J. Meltzer

David J. Meltzer is an American archaeologist whose research examines the first human settlement of North America and th...

Modern American North America Paleoindian

8.1 Great

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William Henry Holmes

William Henry Holmes was an American artist, geologist, anthropologist, and archaeologist whose career joined scientific...

American 19TH Century North America Smithsonian

7.4 Good