Sir Aurel Stein: Quick Facts


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Also Known As Sir Mark Aurel Stein
Born November 26, 1862 • Budapest • Hungary
Died October 26, 1943 (aged 80) • Kabul • Afghanistan

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
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Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers
British archaeologist
Gertrude Caton-Thompson
Gertrude Caton-Thompson
British archaeologist
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Robert Bruce Foote
British geologist and archaeologist
Richard Leakey
Richard Leakey
Kenyan anthropologist, government official, and paleontologist
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John Lloyd Stephens
American archaeologist
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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