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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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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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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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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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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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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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Hans Nissen

Hans Nissen is a German archaeologist and Assyriologist who directed excavations at the ancient Sumerian city of Uruk (m...

German Modern Near East Uruk

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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Max Mallowan

Sir Max Mallowan was a prominent British archaeologist whose career focused on the ancient Near East during the mid-20th...

20TH Century British Assyriology Nimrud

7.9 Good

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Sven Hedin

Sven Hedin was a Swedish geographer, topographer, and explorer renowned for his extensive expeditions across Central Asi...

19TH Century Asian Explorer Swedish

7.9 Good

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Manfred Korfmann

Manfred Korfmann (1942–2005) was a German archaeologist and prehistorian best known for his directorship of the excavati...

German Classical 20TH Century Prehistory

7.8 Good

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Hormuzd Rassam

Hormuzd Rassam was an Ottoman Assyrian archaeologist and diplomat from Mosul who conducted major nineteenth century exca...

19TH Century Iraqi Assyriology Nineveh

7.7 Good

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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