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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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Max Uhle

German archaeologist often called the father of South American scientific archaeology, who conducted systematic excavati...

German 19TH Century South America Inca

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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Leonard Woolley

Leonard Woolley was a British archaeologist best known for his excavation of the Sumerian city of Ur in the 1920s, where...

20TH Century British Ur Assyriology

8.5 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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Arthur Evans

Arthur Evans was a British archaeologist who excavated the site of Knossos on the island of Crete from 1900 onwards, unc...

Classical 19TH Century British Minoan

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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Hans Nissen

German archaeologist who directed the excavations at Uruk in Iraq from 1968 to 1977, providing critical data on the deve...

German Modern Near East Uruk

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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Max Mallowan

Max Mallowan was a British archaeologist specializing in the ancient Near East, who led major excavations at sites like...

20TH Century British Assyriology Nimrud

7.9 Good

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Sven Hedin

Swedish geographer and explorer Sven Hedin is known for his expeditions in Central Asia, mapping significant parts of th...

19TH Century Asian Explorer Swedish

7.9 Good

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Manfred Korfmann

Manfred Korfmann was a German archaeologist who directed excavations at Troy from 1988 until 2005, demonstrating that th...

German Classical 20TH Century Prehistory

7.8 Good

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Hormuzd Rassam

Hormuzd Rassam was an Assyrian archaeologist who worked for the British Museum and famously discovered the Cyrus Cylinde...

19TH Century Iraqi Assyriology Nineveh

7.7 Good

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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