Sir Leonard Woolley: Quick Facts


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Also Known As Sir Charles Leonard Woolley
Born April 17, 1880 • London • England
Died February 20, 1960 (aged 79) • London • England
Subjects Of Study Mesopotamia • civilization

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Hormuzd Rassam
Assyriologist
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John Garstang
British archaeologist
Layard, drawing by G.F. Watts; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Austen Henry Layard
British archaeologist
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Sir Max Mallowan
British archaeologist
David George Hogarth
David George Hogarth
British archaeologist
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Paul-Émile Botta
French archaeologist
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Paolo Orsi
Italian 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
Louis S.B. Leakey
Louis Leakey
Kenyan archaeologist and anthropologist
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Sir Mortimer Wheeler
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
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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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Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod
British archaeologist
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Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers
British archaeologist
Gertrude Caton-Thompson
Gertrude Caton-Thompson
British archaeologist
Schliemann, Heinrich
Heinrich Schliemann
German archaeologist
Richard Leakey
Richard Leakey
Kenyan anthropologist, government official, and paleontologist
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John Lloyd Stephens
American archaeologist
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Carl Blegen
American archaeologist