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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

4

Li Ji

Chinese archaeologist Li Ji is widely considered the founder of modern Chinese archaeology, leading excavations at Yinxu...

20TH Century Chinese Asian Shang

8.8 Great

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Eduard Seler

German explorer and ethnographer whose meticulous early 20th-century documentation of Mesoamerican codices and archaeolo...

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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Paul Pelliot

French sinologist Paul Pelliot is renowned for acquiring thousands of ancient manuscripts from the Dunhuang Mogao Caves...

French 20TH Century Asian Dunhuang

8.7 Great

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Su Bingqi

Chinese archaeologist Su Bingqi transformed the understanding of China's origins by proposing the regional system of cul...

Theory 20TH Century Chinese Asian

8.7 Great

9

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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Aurel Stein

Hungarian-British archaeologist Sir Aurel Stein is famous for his explorations of the Silk Road and discovering the Dunh...

20TH Century Asian Central Asia Silk Road

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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Charles Higham

Charles Higham is a New Zealand archaeologist whose excavations in Southeast Asia, particularly Thailand, have illuminat...

Modern New Zealand Southeast Asia Asian

8.3 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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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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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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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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Giovanni Battista Belzoni

Giovanni Battista Belzoni was an Italian explorer and pioneer archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities who famously relocat...

Italian 19TH Century Explorer Transport

5.2 Mediocre