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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

3

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

4

Li Ji

Li Ji was a 20th-century Chinese archaeologist whose work profoundly shaped the field. He spearheaded crucial excavation...

20TH Century Chinese Asian Shang

8.8 Great

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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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Paul Pelliot

Paul Pelliot was a French archaeologist and sinologist primarily known for his extensive work excavating and documenting...

French 20TH Century Asian Dunhuang

8.7 Great

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Su Bingqi

Su Bingqi was a 20th-century Chinese archaeologist whose work significantly advanced our knowledge of Neolithic China. H...

Theory 20TH Century Chinese Asian

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

10

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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Aurel Stein

Sir Marc Aurel Stein (1862–1943) was a Hungarian-born British archaeologist and explorer renowned for his extensive expe...

20TH Century Asian Central Asia Silk Road

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

15

Charles Higham

Charles Higham is a New Zealand archaeologist and professor emeritus at the University of Otago whose excavations in Sou...

Modern New Zealand Southeast Asia Asian

8.3 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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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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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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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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Giovanni Battista Belzoni

Giovanni Battista Belzoni was an Italian explorer, engineer, and collector active in Egypt during the early nineteenth c...

Italian 19TH Century Explorer Transport

5.2 Mediocre