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Also Known As Henri-Édouard-Prosper Breuil
Born February 28, 1877 • France
Died August 14, 1961 (aged 84) • France
Subjects Of Study cave art • prehistoric age

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Édouard Lartet
French geologist and archaeologist
Boucher de Perthes, Jacques
Jacques Boucher de Perthes
French archaeologist
Gabriel de Mortillet
French archaeologist
Maya bloodletting
Claude-Joseph-Désiré Charnay
French archaeologist
Schliemann, Heinrich
Heinrich Schliemann
German archaeologist
Carl Blegen
American archaeologist
Alfred V. Kidder
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Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae
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Gertrude Caton-Thompson
British archaeologist
Robert Bruce Foote
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Christian Thomsen, oil painting by an unknown artist
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Auguste Mariette
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Jean-François Champollion
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Jean-Jacques Barthélemy
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Claude-Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer
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Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg
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