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Born March 26, 1840 • London • England
Died August 19, 1876 (aged 36) • England
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Hormuzd Rassam
Assyriologist
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
Geoffrey Wainwright
British archaeologist
Sir Aurel Stein
Hungarian-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
King Tut's discoverer
Howard Carter
British archaeologist
Sir Max Mallowan
British archaeologist
Newton, Charles Thomas
Sir Charles Thomas Newton
British archaeologist
Lubbock, John, 1st Baron Avebury
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
British banker, politician, and naturalist
Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod
British archaeologist
George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th earl of Carnarvon
British Egyptologist