Sir Austen Henry Layard: Quick Facts


Facts

Born March 5, 1817 • Paris • France
Died July 5, 1894 (aged 77) • London • England
Subjects Of Study Babylon • Mesopotamia • Assyrian • civilization

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Hormuzd Rassam
Assyriologist
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Paul-Émile Botta
French archaeologist
Leonard Woolley
Sir Leonard Woolley
British archaeologist
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Sir Max Mallowan
British archaeologist
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John Garstang
British archaeologist
Schliemann, Heinrich
Heinrich Schliemann
German archaeologist
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Robert Koldewey
German architect and archaeologist
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Claude-Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer
French archaeologist
Dörpfeld, Wilhelm
Wilhelm Dörpfeld
German archaeologist
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Ernest de Sarzec
French archaeologist
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Henri Frankfort
American archaeologist
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Paolo Orsi
Italian archaeologist
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Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy
French archaeologist
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
Sir Arthur Evans
Sir Arthur Evans
British archaeologist
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Sir Mortimer Wheeler
British archaeologist
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Sir John Hubert Marshall
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