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Facts

Born May 9, 1874 • England
Died March 2, 1939 (aged 64) • London • England
Subjects Of Study Hatshepsut • Pharaoh Thutmose IV • Tutankhamun • Thebes • Valley of the Kings • ancient Egyptian religion • tomb

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Howard Carter wearing a suit, bow tie, and tall top hat, poses for a formal portrait.
Gold funerary mask of Tutankhamun
Howard Carter examines the golden sarcophagus of King Tutankhamun in Egypt in 1922, with an assistant beside him and excavation tools nearby.
Tutankhamun's tomb
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Mariette
Auguste Mariette
French archaeologist
Belzoni, oil painting by W. Brockedon; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Giovanni Battista Belzoni
Italian archaeologist
Pyramid of Menkaure
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American archaeologist
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George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th earl of Carnarvon
British Egyptologist
Greek postage stamp featuring Manolis Andronicos in a suit and glasses, with artifacts from the royal tomb of Macedonia in the foreground.
Manolis Andronicos
Greek archaeologist
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Alfonso Caso y Andrade
Mexican anthropologist
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
Leonard Woolley
Sir Leonard Woolley
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
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Sir Max Mallowan
British archaeologist
Newton, Charles Thomas
Sir Charles Thomas Newton
British archaeologist
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Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod
British archaeologist