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Born March 26, 1840 • London • England
Died August 19, 1876 (aged 36) • England
Subjects Of Study “Epic of Gilgamesh”

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George Smith
Neo-Assyrian clay tablet from the 7th century BC inscribed with dense cuneiform writing, known as the Flood Tablet from the Epic of Gilgamesh, displayed in the British Museum.
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Hormuzd Rassam
Assyriologist
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
Sir Arthur Evans
Sir Arthur Evans
British archaeologist
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Sir Mortimer Wheeler
British archaeologist
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Geoffrey Wainwright
British archaeologist
Leonard Woolley
Sir Leonard Woolley
British archaeologist
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Sir Aurel Stein
Hungarian-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
Layard, drawing by G.F. Watts; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Austen Henry Layard
British archaeologist
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Dame Kathleen Kenyon
British archaeologist
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Sir Alexander Cunningham
British army officer and archaeologist
Howard Carter wearing a suit, bow tie, and tall top hat, poses for a formal portrait.
Howard Carter
British archaeologist
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Sir Max Mallowan
British archaeologist
Newton, Charles Thomas
Sir Charles Thomas Newton
British archaeologist
Lubbock, John, 1st Baron Avebury
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
British banker, politician, and naturalist
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Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod
British archaeologist
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George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th earl of Carnarvon
British Egyptologist