LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
William Foxwell Albright	Archaeologist	24-May-1891	19-Sep-1971	Biblical archaeologist at Johns Hopkins
James Henry Breasted	Archaeologist	27-Aug-1865	2-Dec-1935	A History of Egypt
Charles F. Brush III	Archaeologist	3-Apr-1923	1-Jun-2006	Explorers Club president 1978-81
Howard Carter	Archaeologist	9-May-1874	2-Mar-1939	Uncovered Tutankhamun's Tomb
Gordon Childe	Archaeologist	14-Apr-1892	19-Oct-1957	The Dawn of European Civilisation
David L. Clarke	Archaeologist	3-Nov-1937	27-Jun-1976	Analytical Archaeology
Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon	Artist	4-Jan-1747	27-Apr-1825	Napoleonic archaeologist
Kurt Mendelssohn	Mathematician	7-Jan-1906	18-Sep-1980	Cryogenics and pyramids
Margaret Murray	Archaeologist	13-Jul-1863	13-Nov-1963	Egyptologist, mother of Wicca
Charles Thomas Newton	Archaeologist	16-Sep-1816	28-Nov-1894	Discovered Halicarnassus mausoleum
Hormuzd Rassam	Archaeologist	1826	16-Sep-1910	Discovered Epic of Gilgamesh
Heinrich Schliemann	Archaeologist	6-Jan-1822	26-Dec-1890	Discoverer of ancient Troy
John Lloyd Stephens	Explorer	28-Nov-1805	12-Oct-1852	Incidents of Travel
Mortimer Wheeler	Archaeologist	10-Sep-1890	22-Jul-1976	Archaeology from the Earth
Johann Winckelmann	Archaeologist	9-Dec-1717	8-Jun-1768	Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums
Thomas Young	Physicist	13-Jun-1773	10-May-1829	Wave Theory of Light

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