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German archaeologist
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British archaeologist
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Louis Leakey
Kenyan archaeologist and anthropologist
Hiram Bingham
American archaeologist and United States senator
John Garstang
British archaeologist
Sir Arthur Evans
British archaeologist
Sir Mortimer Wheeler
British archaeologist
Carl Blegen
American archaeologist
Hormuzd Rassam
Assyriologist
Howard Carter
British archaeologist
Li Chi
Chinese archaeologist
Auguste Mariette
French archaeologist
Sir Leonard Woolley
British archaeologist
Sir John Hubert Marshall
British archaeologist
E. G. Squier
American archaeologist
Mary Douglas Leakey
Kenyan archaeologist
Hugo Winckler
German archaeologist
Ferdinand Keller
Swiss archaeologist and prehistorian
Sir Austen Henry Layard
British archaeologist