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Born January 3, 1868 • Aalst • Belgium
Died August 25, 1947 (aged 79) • Brussels • Belgium
Subjects Of Study Mithraism • Roman religion • astrology
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Robert J. Braidwood
American anthropologist
Theodosius I
Theodosius I
Roman emperor
Schliemann, Heinrich
Heinrich Schliemann
German 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
Winckelmann, Johann
Johann Winckelmann
German art historian
John Dee
John Dee
English mathematician
Zahi Hawass and Barack Obama
Zahi Hawass
Egyptian archaeologist and official
Richard Leakey
Richard Leakey
Kenyan anthropologist, government official, and paleontologist
Louis S.B. Leakey
Louis Leakey
Kenyan archaeologist and anthropologist
Hiram Bingham
Hiram Bingham
American archaeologist and United States senator
George Smith
George Smith
British Assyriologist
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Gene Savoy
American explorer and religious leader
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John Garstang
British archaeologist
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Georg von Peuerbach
Austrian mathematician
Sir Arthur Evans
Sir Arthur Evans
British archaeologist
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William Kelso
American archaeologist
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Sir Mortimer Wheeler
British archaeologist
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Imhotep
Egyptian architect, physician, and statesman
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John Lloyd Stephens
American archaeologist
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Harriet Ann Boyd Hawes
American archaeologist