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Also Known As Auguste-Ferdinand-François Mariette
Born February 11, 1821 • Boulogne • France
Died January 19, 1881 (aged 59) • Cairo • Egypt
Founder Egyptian Museum

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Sir Flinders Petrie, detail of an oil painting by George Frederic Watts, 1900; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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George Andrew Reisner
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Hatshepsut
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Louis S.B. Leakey
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Sir Mortimer Wheeler
British archaeologist
Carl Blegen
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Li Chi
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Sir Leonard Woolley
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Leakey, Mary
Mary Douglas Leakey
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Ferdinand Keller
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