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G.Belzoni
Giovanni Battista Belzoni, sometimes known as The Great Belzoni, was a prolific Venetian explorer of Egyptian antiquities.
He was born on 5 November 1778 and sadly he died on 3 December 1823. Belzoni was one of the first western mummy excavators (otherwise known as a tomb robber) in Egypt. -
H.Schliemann
Heinrich Schliemann was a German businessman and amateur archaeologist, and an advocate of the historical reality of places mentioned in the works of Homer. Schliemann was born on the January 6th, 1822 and he sasdly died on the December 26th, 1890. Schliemann was an archaeological excavator of Troy, along with the Mycenaean sites Mycenae and Tiryns. His work lent weight to the idea that Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Aeneid reflect actual historical events. -
F.Petrie
William Matthew Flinders Petrie was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and preservation of artifacts. he was born on 3 June 1853 and sadly died on 28 July 1942. He excavated at many of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt, made valuable contributions to the techniques and methods of field excavation and invented a sequence dating method that made possible the reconstruction of history from the remains of ancient cultures. -
Sir Arthur Evans
Sir Arthur Evans was a British archaeologist most famous for unearthing the palace of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete and for developing the concept of Minoan civilization from the structures and artifacts found there and elsewhere throughout the eastern Mediterranean. Evans was born on the 8th of July 1851 and sadly he passed on the 11th of July 1941. -
K.Kenyon
Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon was a leading archaeologist of Neolithic culture in the Fertile Crescent. She is best known for her excavations in Jericho in 1952-1958. She was born on the 5th January 1906 and sadly she passed on the 24th August 1978. Returning to England, Kenyon joined the archaeological couple Mortimer and Tessa Wheeler on their excavation of the Romano-British settlement of Verulamium (St Albans), 20 miles north of London. After the war, she excavated in Southwark, at The Wrekin, -
M.Wheeler
Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler CH, CIE, MC, FBA, FSA was one of the best-known British archaeologists of the twentieth century. He was born on the 10th September 1890 and sadly he died on the 22nd July 1976, Now 54 years old, he retired from the Army to become Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India, exploring in detail the remains of the Indus Valley Civilization at Mohenjodaro. Soon after he returned during 1948, he was made a professor at the Institute of Archaeology. -
S.Marinatos
Spyridon Nikolaou Marinatos was one of the premier Greek archaeologists of the 20th century. He was born on November 4th 1901 and he passed on October 1th, 1974. Marinatos began his career in Crete as director of the Herakelion Museum in 1929 where he met Sir Arthur Evans. He excavated many Mycenaean sites in the Peloponnese, including an unplundered royal tomb at Routsi, near Pylos. He also dug at Thermopylae and Marathon uncovering the sites where the famous battles had occurred. -
G.Fioralli
Giuseppe Fiorelli was an Italian archaeologist born in Naples, Italy. He was born in the year 1823 and he died in the year 1896. Fiorelli's initial work at Pompeii was completed in 1848. He was then imprisoned for some time because his radical approach to archaeology and strong nationalist feelings landed him in trouble with the foreign king of Naples.
