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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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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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Tom D. Dillehay

Tom Dillehay is a modern American archaeologist whose work significantly advanced our understanding of paleoindian cultu...

Modern American South America Paleoindian

8.7 Great

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Julio C. Tello

Julio C. Tello was a Peruvian archaeologist, trained at Harvard University, who is widely considered the founder of mode...

20TH Century South America Peruvian Chavin

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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John V. Murra

John V. Murra was an anthropologist and historian whose research focused on the political economy and social organizatio...

American 20TH Century South America Inca

8.4 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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Hiram Bingham

Hiram Bingham III was an American historian, explorer, and politician associated with Yale University. In 1911, an exped...

American 20TH Century South America Inca

8.1 Great

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María Rostworowski

María Rostworowski (1915–2016) was a Polish-Peruvian historian and ethnohistorian whose research fundamentally reshaped...

20TH Century South America Peruvian Inca

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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Craig Morris

Craig Morris was an American archaeologist and anthropologist who specialized in the study of the Inca Empire. He served...

American 20TH Century South America Inca

7.8 Good

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Grete Mostny

Grete Mostny was an Austrian-born Chilean archaeologist and museum director who led Chile's National Museum of Natural H...

20TH Century South America Museum Inca

6.8 Fair

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Ricardo E. Latcham

Ricardo E. Latcham was a Chilean archaeologist and ethnologist who studied the archaeology, history, and Indigenous cult...

19TH Century South America Chilean Ethnohistory

6.5 Fair

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Heinrich Schliemann

Heinrich Schliemann was a German businessman and amateur archaeologist who conducted major excavations at Hisarlik in pr...

German Classical 19TH Century Troy

6.1 Fair