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Born November 17, 1823 • England
Died May 31, 1908 (aged 84) • Berkhamsted • England
Sir Wallis Budge
British curator
Sir Leonard Woolley
British archaeologist
John Frere
British archaeologist
Prinsep's Ghat, Kolkata; the archway was erected in memory of James Prinsep.
James Prinsep
English antiquarian
Leland, John
John Leland
English antiquarian
Percy Gardner
British archaeologist
Bernard de Montfaucon
French scholar
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
George Smith
George Smith
British Assyriologist
John Garstang
British archaeologist
Sir Arthur Evans, detail of an oil painting by Sir William Richmond, 1907; in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Sir Arthur Evans
British archaeologist
Sir Mortimer Wheeler
British archaeologist
Geoffrey Wainwright
British archaeologist
Sir Aurel Stein
Hungarian-British archaeologist
Sir John Hubert Marshall
British archaeologist
Thomas Bruce, 7th earl of Elgin
British diplomat
Leakey, Mary
Mary Douglas Leakey
Kenyan archaeologist
Layard, drawing by G.F. Watts; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Austen Henry Layard
British archaeologist
Dame Kathleen Kenyon
British archaeologist