Famous Archaeologists

The French geologist Jacques Boucher de Crevecour de Perthes, was born September 10, 1788 and was noted for being one of the first academics to form...

In 1955, McGill University in Montreal, Canada, gave one of its professors a small laboratory in which to conduct his research of coprolite. Dr Eric...

Balfour was President of the Museums Association, the Royal Anthropological Institute, and the Royal Geographical Society. He was also appointed a...

The Italian Renaissance historian Flavio Biondo, is recognised as one of the world’s first archaeologists and coined the infamous term ‘Middle Ages’....

Heinrich Schliemann is arguably the greatest rouge in archaeological history. He was a classical eccentric whose obsession with proving the Battle of...

Henri Edouard Prosper Breuil was born in Mortain France in 1877. He was educated at the Sorbonne and also the Catholic Institute in Paris. He had a...

After visiting the world's greatest private collection of Egyptian artefacts, Carter was driven by ambitious aspirations. Season after season, he...

Born Augustus Henry Lane-Fox in 1827 he inherited a name change when his great uncle died and unexpectedly left him a large 27,000 acre country...

According to information in the The Dead Sea Scrolls (see our article on this site), Nabonidus was the last great king of the Babylonian Empire....

Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford is generally described as being the modern inventor of aerial photography in the pioneering days of archaeological...

Shinichi Fujimura by age 50, had established himself as a leading archaeologist in Japan. His career, however, only began as a hobby interest. One of...

Mortimer Wheeler was born in 1890 in Glasgow, Scotland. His family moved to Bradford, where he was first educated at Bradford Grammar School then...

W. F. Albright is best known as an archaeologist and biblical scholar. He was born in Coquimbo Chile, to Methodist missionaries and transferred to...