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Born January 4, 1839 • Prussia
Died April 12, 1896 (aged 57) • İzmir • Ottoman Empire
Subjects Of Study sculpture • Hellenistic age • urban planning
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Li Chi
Chinese archaeologist
Schliemann, Heinrich
Heinrich Schliemann
German archaeologist
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Hugo Winckler
German archaeologist
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Robert Koldewey
German architect and archaeologist
Dörpfeld, Wilhelm
Wilhelm Dörpfeld
German archaeologist
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Ernst Curtius
German archaeologist
Bossert, 1940
Helmuth Theodor Bossert
German archaeologist
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Adolf Furtwängler
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
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
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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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Carl Blegen
American archaeologist
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Hormuzd Rassam
Assyriologist
Mariette
Auguste Mariette
French archaeologist
Leonard Woolley
Sir Leonard Woolley
British archaeologist
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Sir John Hubert Marshall
British archaeologist