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Born December 6, 1802 • Turin • Italy
Died March 29, 1870 (aged 67) • France
Subjects Of Study Mesopotamia • civilization
Layard, drawing by G.F. Watts; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Austen Henry Layard
British archaeologist
Hormuzd Rassam
Assyriologist
Sir Leonard Woolley
British archaeologist
Claude-Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer
French archaeologist
Ernest de Sarzec
French archaeologist
Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy
French archaeologist
Schliemann, Heinrich
Heinrich Schliemann
German archaeologist
John Garstang
British archaeologist
Dörpfeld, Wilhelm
Wilhelm Dörpfeld
German archaeologist
Henri Frankfort
American archaeologist
Paolo Orsi
Italian archaeologist
Mariette
Auguste Mariette
French archaeologist
Boucher de Perthes, Jacques
Jacques Boucher de Perthes
French archaeologist
Pierre Montet
French Egyptologist
André Parrot
French archaeologist
Sir Flinders Petrie, detail of an oil painting by George Frederic Watts, 1900; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Sir Flinders Petrie
British archaeologist
Richard Leakey
Richard Leakey
Kenyan anthropologist, government official, and paleontologist
Louis S.B. Leakey
Louis Leakey
Kenyan archaeologist and anthropologist
Hiram Bingham
Hiram Bingham
American archaeologist and United States senator
Sir Arthur Evans, detail of an oil painting by Sir William Richmond, 1907; in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Sir Arthur Evans
British archaeologist