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Also Known As Sir Charles Leonard Woolley
Born April 17, 1880 • London • England
Died February 20, 1960 (aged 79) • London • England
Subjects Of Study Mesopotamia • civilization
Hormuzd Rassam
Assyriologist
John Garstang
British archaeologist
Layard, drawing by G.F. Watts; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Austen Henry Layard
British archaeologist
Sir Max Mallowan
British archaeologist
David George Hogarth
David George Hogarth
British archaeologist
Paul-Émile Botta
French archaeologist
Paolo Orsi
Italian archaeologist
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
Sir Mortimer Wheeler
British archaeologist
Leakey, Mary
Mary Douglas Leakey
Kenyan archaeologist
Dame Kathleen Kenyon
British archaeologist
Sir Alexander Cunningham
British army officer and archaeologist
Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod
British archaeologist
Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers
British archaeologist
Gertrude Caton-Thompson
British archaeologist
Schliemann, Heinrich
Heinrich Schliemann
German archaeologist
Richard Leakey
Richard Leakey
Kenyan anthropologist, government official, and paleontologist
John Lloyd Stephens
American archaeologist
Carl Blegen
American archaeologist