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Giovanni Belzoni
(1778-1823)
One of the first western mummy excavators in Egypt. Born in Italy. Wrote four books about his expeditions. -
Giuseppe Fiorelli
(1823-1896)
Born in Italy. An archaeologist whose systematic excavation at Pompeii helped to preserve much of the ancient city as nearly intact as possible and contributed significantly to modern archaeological methods. He pioneered his meticulous method of studying archaeological strata; observation, recording, preservation (including building a museum), and reporting were its fundamental features. -
Heinrich Schliemann
(1822-1890)
Born in Germany. He was an excavator of the Mycenaean sites of Troy, Mycenae, and Tiryns. Although he was untrained in archaeological techniques and was more of a "treasure-hunter" than a scientist, his enthusiasm and determination led him to many significant finds. -
Sir Arthur Evans
(1851-1941)
He 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. -
Flinders Petrie
(1853-1942)
He first went to Egyptv at the age of 26, to survey the Great Pyramid. For the next five decades he was at the forefront of the development of archaeology in the country, before turning in the 1920s to the archaeology of Palestine. He saw his life as a mission of rescue archaeology - to retrieve as much information as possible from sites. -
Theodore Christian Blegen
(1891-1969)
Blegen was the author of numerous historic reference books, papers and articles written over a five decade period. His primary areas of focus were of the history of the state of Minnesota and of Norwegian-American immigration. -
Mortiner Wheeler
(1890-1976)
One of the best-known British archaeologists of the 20th century and performed many major excavations within Britain. The excavation methods he used, for example the grid system, was a significant advance in archaeological method, -
Spyridon Marinatos
(1901-1974)
He was one of the premier Greek archaeologists of the 20th century, whose most notable discovery was the site of the Minoan port city on the island of Thera destroyed and preserved by the massive volcanic eruption, -
Kathleen Kenyon
(1906-1978)
She was a leading archaeologist of the neolithic culture. She is best known for her excavations in Jericho. has been involved in excavations in Britain, Libya, Samaria and Jerusalem. -
George Bass
(1932)
He is one of the early practitioners of underwater archaeology,Bass was the director of the first archaeological expedition to entirely excavate an ancient shipwreck: Cape Gelidonya (1960). Since directing his first excavation, he has excavated shipwrecks of the Bronze Age, Classical Age, and the Byzantine. -
Zahi Hawass
(1947)
An Egyptian archaeologist who worked at archaeological sites in the Nile Delta, the Western Desert, and the Upper Nile Valley. -
Nicholas Reeves
(1956)
As an archaeologist Nicholas Reeves is best known for his excavations in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, where in the winter of 2000 a ground-penetrating radar (GPR) survey carried out by his Amarna Royal Tombs Project (ARTP) first encountered the undisturbed funerary chamber -
Mark Lehner
An American archaeologist with more than 30 years of experience excavating in Egypt. Among his other work in Egypt, Lehner has produced the only known scale maps of the Giza Sphinx.
