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Egyptology. Signature. Howard Carter (9 May 1874 – 2 March 1939) was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Tutankhamun in November 1922, the best-preserved pharaonic tomb ever found in the Valley of the Kings.
History of archaeology. Archaeology is the study of human activity in the past, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data that they have left behind, which includes artifacts, architecture, biofacts (also known as eco-facts) and cultural landscapes (the archaeological record).
Charles Conrad Abbott (1843–1919) American; advocate of early occupation of Americas. Kamyar Abdi (born 1969) Iranian; Iran, Neolithic to the Bronze Age. Aziz Ab'Saber (1924–2012) Brazilian; Brazil. Johann Michael Ackner (1783–1862) Transylvanian; Roman Dacia. Dinu Adameșteanu (1913–2004) Romanian-Italian; aerial photography and survey ...
Vere Gordon Childe (14 April 1892 – 19 October 1957) was an Australian archaeologist who specialised in the study of European prehistory. He spent most of his life in the United Kingdom, working as an academic for the University of Edinburgh and then the Institute of Archaeology, London. He wrote twenty-six books during his career.
Gustaf Kossinna. Gustaf Kossinna (28 September 1858 – 20 December 1931) was a German philologist and archaeologist who was Professor of German Archaeology at the University of Berlin. Along with Carl Schuchhardt he was the most influential German prehistorian of his day, and was creator of the techniques of settlement archaeology (German ...
David Wengrow. David Wengrow (born 25 July 1972) is a British archaeologist and Professor of Comparative Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. [1] He co-authored the international bestseller The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity which was a finalist for the Orwell Prize in 2022. [2]
Oscar White Muscarella. Oscar White Muscarella (March 26, 1931 – November 27, 2022) was an American archaeologist and former Senior Research Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he worked for over 40 years before retiring in 2009. He specialized in the art and archaeology of the Ancient Near East, in particular Ancient Persia and ...
Angono Petroglyphs. Alab Petroglyphs of Mountain Province. Archeaological sites of the Prehistory of Sarangani. Archaeology of Porac, Pampanga. Balingasay Archeaological Site in Bolinao, Pangasinan. Banton, Romblon. Baroque Churches of the Philippines.