Biographies: Archaeologists

Updated August 5, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

Archaeologists

• Belzoni, Giovanni Battista, Italian adventurer and antiquities dealer
• Bent, James Theodore, English explorer and archaeologist
• Bingham, Hiram, American archaeologist, historian, and statesman
• Birch, Samuel, English Egyptologist
• Botta, Paul Émile, French archaeologist and government official
• Boucher de Crí¨vecœur de Perthes, Jacques, French writer and archaeologist
• Breasted, James Henry, American Egyptologist
• Breuil, Henri, French archaeologist
• Carnarvon, George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th earl of, English Egyptologist
• Carter, Howard, English Egyptologist
• Caso, Alfonso, Mexican archaeologist
• Champollion, Jean Franí§ois, French linguist and Egyptologist
• Childe, Vere Gordon, British archaeologist
• Cottrell, Leonard, British author and archaeologist
• Cunningham, Sir Alexander, English archaeologist and army engineer
• Dawkins, Sir William Boyd, English geologist and archaeologist
• Ekholm, Gordon Frederick, American archaeologist
• Evans, Sir Arthur John, English archaeologist
• Evans, Sir John, English archaeologist
• Frankfort, Henri, American archaeologist
• Frobenius, Leo, German archaeologist and anthropologist
• Furtwängler, Adolf, German archaeologist
• Gardner, Percy, English classical archaeologist
• Garstang, John, English archaeologist
• Gell, Sir William, English archaeologist
• Grenfell, Bernard Pyne, English classical scholar and Egyptologist
• Guest, Edwin, English archaeologist and philologist
• Hamilton, Sir William, British diplomat and archaeologist
• Harrison, Jane Ellen, English classical scholar
• Hilprecht, Hermann Volrath, American Assyriologist
• Hogarth, David George, English archaeologist
• Holmes, William Henry, American geologist, anthropologist, and museum director
• Kidder, Alfred Vincent, American archaeologist
• Lanciani, Rodolfo Amadeo, Italian archaeologist
• Layard, Sir Austen Henry, English archaeologist and diplomat
• Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett, British archaeologist and anthropologist
• Leakey, Mary Douglas, British archaeologist and paleontologist
• Leakey, Richard Erskine Frere, Kenyan paleoanthropologist
• Lepsius, Karl Richard, German Egyptologist and philologist
• Lloyd, Seton Howard Frederick, English archaeologist
• Magnusson, Finnur, Icelandic archaeologist and scholar
• Mallowan, Sir Max Edgar Lucien, British archaeologist
• Mariette, Auguste Édouard, French Egyptologist
• Maspero, Sir Gaston Camille Charles, French Egyptologist
• Morley, Sylvanus Griswold, American archaeologist
• Murray, Alexander Stuart, Scottish archaeologist
• Pendlebury, John Devitt Stringfellow, British archaeologist
• Perrot, Georges, French archaeologist
• Petrie, Sir William Matthew Flinders, English archaeologist
• Rassam, Hormuzd, Turkish archaeologist
• Schliemann, Heinrich, German archaeologist
• Squier, Ephraim George, American archaeologist and journalist
• Vaillant, George Clapp, American archaeologist
• Wace, Alan John Bayard, English archaeologist
• Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, German classical archaeologist and historian
• Winckler, Hugo, German Orientalist
• Woolley, Sir Charles Leonard, English archaeologist