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G. Belzoni
He was the first European in modern times to visit the oasis of Bahariya.
He also uncovered the colossal bust of Ramesses II, commonly called "the Young Memnon” & identified the ruins of Berenice on the Red Sea. -
G. Fiorelli
involved in the excavation at Pompeii & helped to preserve much of the ancient city as nearly intact as possible and contributed significantly to modern archaeological methods. -
H. Schliemann
Before him, not many believed in the historical accuracy of Homer’s stories. Schliemann, however, he pursued the city & succesfully uncovered it. He influenced numerous later archaeologists, such as Arthur Evans. -
C. Blegen
he is famous for his work on the site of Pylos in modern-day Greece and Troy in modern-day Turkey. He also gave a clarification of the myth surrounding Homer's Iliad. -
Sir Arthur Evans
He is known for unearthing the palace of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete and for developing the concept of Minoan civilization. Evans was the first to define Cretan scripts Linear A and Linear B, as well as an earlier pictographic writing. -
F. Petrie
He held the first chair of Egyptology in the United Kingdom, and excavated at many of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt. -
Mortimer Wheeler
He helped to establish a "total view" of the region's development from the Palaeolithic onwar. He also introduced multiple archaeological techniques and methods that were then unknown in India, They say he prepared the archaeology of the subcontinent for its transition to modernity in the post-Partition period -
Z. Hawass
He has also worked at archaeological sites in the Nile Delta, the Western Desert, and the Upper Nile Valley -
K. Kenyon
leading archaeologist of Neolithic culture in the Fertile Crescent. She is best known for her excavations in Jericho. -
G. Bass
recognized as one of the early practitioners of underwater archaeology. director of the first archaeological expedition to entirely excavate an ancient shipwreck: Cape Gelidonya -
S Marinatos
Most notable discovery was the site of the Minoan port city on the island of Thera, destroyed and preserved by the massive volcanic eruption.
