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.

Alexander Ferdinand Quast

German archaeologist and architect.

Nicholas Adontz

Byzantine and Armenologist, public figure, historian.

American paleontologist

Auguste Labourt

French archaeologist and economist

Alessandro Della Seta

Italian archaeologist and professor.

French archaeologist

Vladimir Stasov

Art and music critic, art historian, archaeologist, public figure, honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences

British archaeologist

Charles Woolley

Leading English archaeologist of the first half of the twentieth century

Semir Osmanagic

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnian writer, amateur archaeologist and metalworking contractor

Jindrich Wankel

Czech doctor, archaeologist and speleologist

Ukrainian Soviet archaeologist-classicist

Charles Robert Charles Robert Cockerell;

English architect and archaeologist

American archaeologist

Archaeologist, historian and numismatist

Stanislav Philippe Jacob Krzhizhanovsky

Polish archaeologist.

Adam Cardonnel-Lawson

British antique dealer and collector of antiquities

Czech archaeologist and dissident.

Leonid Zaliznyak

Soviet and Ukrainian archaeologist, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor

Manfred Korfmann

German archaeologist, researcher of prehistoric European history, professor

Giancarlo Conestabile della Staffa

Italian archaeologist

Janusz Kozlowski

Polish archaeologist, Egyptologist

Ferdinand Keller

Swiss archaeologist.

Frank Hamilton Cushing

American archaeologist, ethnographer, and Indian rights activist

American archaeologist, anthropologist, epigraphist, Mayanist, professor

Gerald Matiushin

Prominent Russian archaeologist

British archaeologist

Zacharie Le Rouzic

French archaeologist

Famous archaeologist, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor

English archaeologist

French archaeologist and politician.

Heinrich Dressel

German archaeologist and numismatist

Stefan Kozlovskiy

Polish archaeologist

Bellarmino Bagatti

Italian archaeologist, priest

Gustaf Seyffarth

German archaeologist.

Charles Labarte

French archaeologist.

Italian-born archaeologist.

Gudrat Ismailzade

Azerbaijani archaeologist, doctor of historical sciences, professor

The greatest archaeologist of the 20th century

Alexey Bobrinsky

Archaeologist, statesman and public figure of Russia

Israeli archaeologist specializing in the study of the Paleolithic.

Reinhard Kekule

German archaeologist.

Charles Othon Clarac

French archaeologist

Robert Macalister

Irish archaeologist.

Maud Cunnington

It is best known for its excavations of several major prehistoric sites on Salisbury Plain.

Gertrude Caton–Thompson

English female archaeologist.

Brazilian female archaeologist.

Percival Harrison Fawcett

British archaeologist and traveler