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Born 1655 • France
Died 1741 (aged 86) • Paris • France
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Sir John Evans
British antiquarian and archaeologist
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John Frere
British archaeologist
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Auguste Mariette
French archaeologist
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Gaston Maspero
French Egyptologist
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Édouard Lartet
French geologist and archaeologist
Henri Breuil.
Henri Breuil
French archaeologist
Rosetta Stone
Jean-François Champollion
French historian and linguist
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Jean Mabillon
French scholar
Boucher de Perthes, Jacques
Jacques Boucher de Perthes
French archaeologist
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Paul-Émile Botta
French archaeologist
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Jean-Jacques Barthélemy
French archaeologist
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Claude-Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer
French archaeologist
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Ernest de Sarzec
French archaeologist
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Pierre Montet
French Egyptologist
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André Parrot
French archaeologist
Quicherat, detail of a lithograph by Tony Toullion
Jules Quicherat
French historian
Clermont-Ganneau, engraving
Charles Clermont-Ganneau
French archaeologist
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Gabriel de Mortillet
French archaeologist
Maya bloodletting
Claude-Joseph-Désiré Charnay
French archaeologist
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Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy
French archaeologist