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Born April 14, 1827 • England
Died May 4, 1900 (aged 73) • England
Sir Flinders Petrie, detail of an oil painting by George Frederic Watts, 1900; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Sir Flinders Petrie
British archaeologist
Louis S.B. Leakey
Louis Leakey
Kenyan archaeologist and anthropologist
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John Garstang
British archaeologist
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Sir Mortimer Wheeler
British archaeologist
Leonard Woolley
Sir Leonard Woolley
British archaeologist
Mary Leakey stands beside a large fiberglass cast of ancient hominid footprints, holding the edge and looking toward the camera.
Mary Douglas Leakey
Kenyan archaeologist
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Dame Kathleen Kenyon
British archaeologist
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Sir Alexander Cunningham
British army officer and archaeologist
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Sir Max Mallowan
British archaeologist
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Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod
British archaeologist
David George Hogarth
David George Hogarth
British archaeologist
Gertrude Caton-Thompson
Gertrude Caton-Thompson
British archaeologist
Richard Leakey
Richard Leakey
Kenyan anthropologist, government official, and paleontologist
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Carl Blegen
American archaeologist
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Hormuzd Rassam
Assyriologist
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Li Chi
Chinese archaeologist
Mariette
Auguste Mariette
French archaeologist
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E. G. Squier
American archaeologist
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Ferdinand Keller
Swiss archaeologist and prehistorian
Boucher de Perthes, Jacques
Jacques Boucher de Perthes
French archaeologist