Famous Archaeologists
Below are our 12 articles in the 'famous archaeologists' category:
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 the idea that archaeological history could be ...
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 Ottleban Callen was experimenting in methods to ...
The Italian Renaissance historian Flavio Biondo, is recognised as one of the world’s first archaeologists and coined the infamous term ‘Middle Ages’.
Biondo, whose Latin name was Flavius Blondus, ...
Heinrich Schliemann is arguably the greatest rouge in archaeological history. He was a classical eccentric whose obsession with proving the Battle of Troy in Homer's Iliad led him to repeated lies ...
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 strong desire to enter into the religious order of ...
After visiting the world's greatest private collection of Egyptian artefacts, Carter was driven by ambitious aspirations. Season after season, he pursued the dream of finding the greatest ...
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 estate in Dorset, England. Along with the Rivers estate ...
According to information in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Nabonidus was the last great king of the Babylonian Empire. Babylon was in ...
Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford is generally described as being the modern inventor of aerial photography in the pioneering days of archaeological reform.
Better Methods of Analysis
Crawford’s ...
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 his first jobs was working at a manufacturing ...
Mortimer Wheeler was born in 1890 in Glasgow, Scotland. His family moved to Bradford, where he was first educated at Bradford Grammar School then earned a BA and MA at University College, London. ...
W. F. Albright is best known as an archaeologist and biblical scholar. He was born in Coquimbo Chile, to Methodist missionaries and transferred to the United States at age twelve to study. He gained ...
