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News •

Suitcase Belonging to the Legendary Archaeologist Who Discovered King Tut's Tomb Surfaces in England • Feb. 26, 2025, 10:32 PM ET (Smithsonian Magazine)
Tutankhamun explorer suitcase found under bed • Feb. 21, 2025, 1:20 AM ET (BBC)

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Born May 9, 1874 • England
Died March 2, 1939 (aged 64) • London • England
Subjects Of Study Hatshepsut • Pharaoh Thutmose IV • Tutankhamun • Thebes • Valley of the Kings • ancient Egyptian religion • tomb

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King Tut's discoverer
gold funerary mask of Tutankhamun
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Mariette
Auguste Mariette
French archaeologist
Belzoni, oil painting by W. Brockedon; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Giovanni Battista Belzoni
Italian archaeologist
Pyramid of Menkaure
George Andrew Reisner
American archaeologist
George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th earl of Carnarvon
British Egyptologist
Andronicos, Manolis
Manolis Andronicos
Greek archaeologist
Alfonso Caso y Andrade
Mexican anthropologist
Sir Flinders Petrie, detail of an oil painting by George Frederic Watts, 1900; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Sir Flinders Petrie
British archaeologist
Louis S.B. Leakey
Louis Leakey
Kenyan archaeologist and anthropologist
John Garstang
British archaeologist
Sir Arthur Evans, detail of an oil painting by Sir William Richmond, 1907; in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Sir Arthur Evans
British archaeologist
Sir Mortimer Wheeler
British archaeologist
Sir John Hubert Marshall
British archaeologist
Sir Leonard Woolley
British archaeologist
Leakey, Mary
Mary Douglas Leakey
Kenyan archaeologist
Layard, drawing by G.F. Watts; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Austen Henry Layard
British archaeologist
Dame Kathleen Kenyon
British archaeologist
Sir Alexander Cunningham
British army officer and archaeologist
Sir Max Mallowan
British archaeologist
Newton, Charles Thomas
Sir Charles Thomas Newton
British archaeologist
Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod
British archaeologist