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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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Robert McC. Adams

Robert McC. Adams was an American archaeologist renowned for his innovative survey methods in the Near East. His extensi...

American Survey 20TH Century Near East

8.7 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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David Wengrow

David Wengrow is a British archaeologist and professor at University College London whose research focuses on the Near E...

Modern Near East British Neolithic

8.6 Great

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William Foxwell Albright

William Foxwell Albright was an American archaeologist, biblical scholar, and specialist in ancient Near Eastern languag...

American 20TH Century Near East Biblical

8.6 Great

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Israel Finkelstein

Israel Finkelstein is an Israeli archaeologist and professor at Tel Aviv University who specializes in the archaeology o...

Modern Israeli Near East Biblical

8.6 Great

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Leonard Woolley

Sir Leonard Woolley was a British archaeologist known chiefly for directing excavations at the ancient Sumerian city of...

20TH Century British Ur Assyriology

8.5 Great

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Yigael Yadin

Yigael Yadin was an Israeli archaeologist, military officer, and politician who served as the second chief of staff of t...

Israeli 20TH Century Near East Masada

8.5 Great

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Patty Jo Watson

Patty Jo Watson is an American archaeologist who served as a professor at Washington University in St. Louis. She is rec...

American 20TH Century Near East Caves

8.3 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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Paul Zanker

Paul Zanker is a German classical archaeologist and art historian whose scholarship examines the visual culture, archite...

German Classical Modern Art

8.2 Great

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Henry T. Wright

Henry T. Wright is an American anthropological archaeologist recognized for his research on the origins of complex socie...

Modern American Near East Sumer

8.2 Great

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Guillermo Algaze

Guillermo Algaze is an American archaeologist and anthropologist whose research focuses on the development of early urba...

Modern Expansion Near East Uruk

8.1 Great

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Amihai Mazar

Amihai Mazar is an Israeli archaeologist and professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has directed e...

Modern Israeli Near East Bronze Age

8.1 Great

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Trude Dothan

Trude Dothan was an Israeli archaeologist whose research concentrated on the Philistines and the archaeology of the east...

Israeli 20TH Century Near East Bronze Age

8.1 Great

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Benjamin Mazar

Benjamin Mazar (1906–1995), born Binyamin Maisler in Ciechanowiec, Poland, was an Israeli historian and archaeologist wh...

Israeli 20TH Century Near East Biblical

8.0 Great

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Ephraim Stern

Ephraim Stern (1934–2018) was an Israeli archaeologist who served as a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem....

Israeli 20TH Century Near East Persian

7.9 Good

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Gregory Johnson

Gregory Johnson is an American archaeologist and anthropologist known for his research on the development of early compl...

American 20TH Century Near East Complexity

7.7 Good

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Reinhard Bernbeck

Reinhard Bernbeck is a German archaeologist whose work focuses on the ancient Near East, archaeological theory, and the...

German Modern Theory Mesopotamia

7.4 Good