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Born September 10, 1855 • Germany
Died February 4, 1925 (aged 69) • Berlin • Germany

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Hugo Winckler
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Dörpfeld, Wilhelm
Wilhelm Dörpfeld
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Ernst Curtius
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Helmuth Theodor Bossert
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Karl Humann
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Sir Flinders Petrie, detail of an oil painting by George Frederic Watts, 1900; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Sir Flinders Petrie
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Richard Leakey
Richard Leakey
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Louis S.B. Leakey
Louis Leakey
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Hiram Bingham
Hiram Bingham
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John Garstang
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Sir Arthur Evans, detail of an oil painting by Sir William Richmond, 1907; in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Sir Arthur Evans
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Sir Mortimer Wheeler
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Carl Blegen
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Mariette
Auguste Mariette
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Li Chi
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Sir John Hubert Marshall
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