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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

French antiquarian who in the 1830s–1840s was among the first to demonstrate human antiquity by associating flint tools...

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

Peruvian archaeologist known as the father of Peruvian archaeology, who discovered the Paracas culture in 1925 and was t...

20TH Century South America Peruvian Chavin

8.6 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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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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John Lloyd Stephens

John Lloyd Stephens was an American explorer whose 1839 and 1840 expeditions to Central America documented ancient Maya...

American 19TH Century Explorer Maya

8.4 Great

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Robert Koldewey

Robert Koldewey was a German architect and archaeologist who led the excavation of Babylon from 1899 to 1917, famously d...

German Architecture 19TH Century Assyriology

8.2 Great

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Paul Zanker

Paul Zanker is a German classical archaeologist whose research focuses on Roman art and urbanism, particularly the topog...

German Classical Modern Art

8.2 Great

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Richard L. Burger

Richard L. Burger is an American archaeologist noted for his significant excavations and research at the Chavín de Huánt...

Modern American South America Chavin

8.2 Great

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Hiram Bingham

American explorer and Yale historian who brought Machu Picchu to world attention in 1911 and later served as U.S. senato...

American 20TH Century South America Inca

8.1 Great

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María Rostworowski

María Rostworowski was a Polish-Peruvian historian and archaeologist whose influential research transformed the understa...

20TH Century South America Peruvian Inca

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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Craig Morris

Craig Morris was an American archaeologist recognized for his extensive excavations at the Inca administrative center of...

American 20TH Century South America Inca

7.8 Good

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Grete Mostny

Grete Mostny was an Austrian-born Chilean archaeologist who directed the National Museum of Natural History and studied...

20TH Century South America Museum Inca

6.8 Fair

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Heinrich Schliemann

Heinrich Schliemann was a German businessman and pioneer archaeologist who excavated Hisarlik in the 1870s, claiming to...

German Classical 19TH Century Troy

6.1 Fair