Occupation: Archaeologist

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Occupation: Archaeologist

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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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