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Also Known As Gustave-Charles-Ernest Chocquin de Sarzec
Born 1832 • Rennes • France
Died 1901 (aged 69) • Poitiers • France
Subjects Of Study Sumer • civilization
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Paul-Émile Botta
French archaeologist
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Claude-Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer
French archaeologist
Schliemann, Heinrich
Heinrich Schliemann
German archaeologist
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John Garstang
British archaeologist
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Hormuzd Rassam
Assyriologist
Leonard Woolley
Sir Leonard Woolley
British archaeologist
Layard, drawing by G.F. Watts; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Austen Henry Layard
British archaeologist
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Paolo Orsi
Italian archaeologist
Mariette
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French archaeologist
Boucher de Perthes, Jacques
Jacques Boucher de Perthes
French archaeologist
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Pierre Montet
French Egyptologist
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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
Richard Leakey
Richard Leakey
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Louis S.B. Leakey
Louis Leakey
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Hiram Bingham
Hiram Bingham
American archaeologist and United States senator
Sir Arthur Evans
Sir Arthur Evans
British archaeologist
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Sir Mortimer Wheeler
British archaeologist
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John Lloyd Stephens
American archaeologist
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Carl Blegen
American archaeologist