Archaeology
Discover the world's most renowned archaeologists who have unearthed the mysteries of ancient civilizations. From Howard Carter to Jane Goodall, explore the remarkable individuals who have dedicated their lives to excavating and understanding the past.

Frane Bulic
Croatia
CroatiaCroatian archaeologist and cleric

Bellarmino Bagatti
Italy
ItalyItalian archaeologist, priest

Simon Emanuel
France
FranceFrench archaeologist and politician.

Muhammed Goneim
Egypt
EgyptEgyptian Egyptologist and archaeologist

Giovanni Battista De Rossi
Italy
ItalyItalian Christian archaeologist and epigrapher

Rodolfo Lanciani
Italy
ItalyItalian archaeologist

Leon Kozlowski
Germany
GermanyPolish archaeologist, politician, Prime Minister of Poland in 1934-1935

Zdenek Vasicek
Czech
CzechCzech archaeologist and dissident.

Zahi Hawass
Egypt
EgyptEgyptian archaeologist and historian of Ancient Egypt.

Vladimir Stasov
Russia
RussiaArt and music critic, art historian, archaeologist, public figure, honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences

Amedey Caix de Saint-Aymour
France
FranceFrench scientist.

Alexey Bobrinsky
Russia
RussiaArchaeologist, statesman and public figure of Russia

Valentin Danilenko
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian archaeologist.

Annette Laming-Emperaire
France
FranceFrench archaeologist

Josef Szombathy
Austria
AustriaAustrian archaeologist

Charles Fellows
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish archaeologist

Howard Carter
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish Egyptologist who discovered Tutankhamun's tomb

Manolis Andronikos
Greece
GreeceGreek archaeologist, professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Alexander Ilyin
Rostov archaeologist, historian, teacher, one of the founders of the Rostov City Museum.

Gudrat Ismailzade
Azerbaijan
AzerbaijanAzerbaijani archaeologist, doctor of historical sciences, professor

Mark Aleshkovsky
Medievalist historian and archaeologist

Konstantin Tushkevich
Belarus
BelarusArchaeologist, historian, ethnographer, folklorist from the Tyshkevich family.

Charles Robert Charles Robert Cockerell;
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish architect and archaeologist

Barnum Brown
USA
USAAmerican paleontologist

Ofer Bar-Yosef
Israel
IsraelIsraeli archaeologist specializing in the study of the Paleolithic.

Ilyas Babaev
Azerbaijan
AzerbaijanAzerbaijani Soviet archaeologist, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor

Vasiliy Gorodtsov
Russian and Soviet archaeologist

Alessandro Della Seta
Italy
ItalyItalian archaeologist and professor.

Manfred Korfmann
Germany
GermanyGerman archaeologist, researcher of prehistoric European history, professor

Jens Worsaae
Denmark
DenmarkDanish archaeologist

Auguste Mariette
France
FranceFrench scientist, archaeologist and Egyptologist

Jacques Boucher de Perthes
France
FranceFrench archaeologist, one of the founders of scientific archaeology

Karl Lepsius
Germany
GermanyAn outstanding German (Prussian) archaeologist and Egyptologist.

Gustaf Seyffarth
Germany
GermanyGerman archaeologist.

Fustel de Coulanges
France
FranceArchaeologist

Manuel Gomez-Moreno
Spain
SpainSpanish archaeologist, epigraphist, art historian and linguist. In the 1930s and 1940s, he deciphered the Paleohispanic script, which contributed to significant progress in the study of the ancient history of the Iberian Peninsula before the Roman conquest.

Hiram Bingham III
USA
USAAmerican explorer and political activist

Alfred Kidder
USA
USAThe greatest archaeologist of the 20th century

David Clarke
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish archaeologist

James Mellaart
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish archaeologist

Alpheus Hyatt
USA
USAAmerican zoologist and paleontologist

Emile Cartailhac
France
FranceFrench scientist in the field of prehistoric archaeology.

Mel Fisher
USA
USAArchaeologist

Tadeos Avdalbegyan
Armenia
ArmeniaAn outstanding Armenian scholar and encyclopedist (historian-archaeologist, Marxist economist and philologist-linguist).

Alexander Ferdinand Quast
Germany
GermanyGerman archaeologist and architect.

Ferdinand Keller
Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwiss archaeologist.

Janusz Kozlowski
Poland
PolandPolish archaeologist, Egyptologist

Karl Fuks
Russia
RussiaArchaeologist, historian and numismatist

Rodrigo Caro
Spain
SpainSpanish legal scholar and archaeologist, poet of the Seville school.

Vladimir Baran
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian archaeologist