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Born September 28, 1856 • Worcester • Massachusetts
Died May 11, 1935 (aged 78) • Plainfield • New Jersey
Subjects Of Study Maya • civilization
John Lloyd Stephens
American archaeologist
Alfred V. Kidder
American archaeologist
Henri Frankfort
American archaeologist
Schliemann, Heinrich
Heinrich Schliemann
German archaeologist
John Garstang
British archaeologist
Hormuzd Rassam
Assyriologist
Sir Leonard Woolley
British archaeologist
Layard, drawing by G.F. Watts; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Austen Henry Layard
British archaeologist
Paul-Émile Botta
French archaeologist
Claude-Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer
French archaeologist
Ernest de Sarzec
French archaeologist
Paolo Orsi
Italian archaeologist
Robert J. Braidwood
American anthropologist
Hiram Bingham
Hiram Bingham
American archaeologist and United States senator
Gene Savoy
American explorer and religious leader
William Kelso
American archaeologist
Carl Blegen
American archaeologist
Harriet Ann Boyd Hawes
American archaeologist
William H. McNeill
Canadian-American historian
Alfred M. Tozzer
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