Kathleen Kenyon

Kathleen Kenyon

female, deceased (1978)
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Order of the British Empire, Archaeologist, British, Dame Commander of the British Empire, leicester
Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon, important English archaeologist of Neolithic culture in the Fertile Crescent and excavator of a small area of Jericho in...
Mike Parker Pearson

Mike Parker Pearson

male
Archaeologist, British, archaeology, university of sheffield, South Uist, The Archaeology of Death and Burial
Mike Parker Pearson is a professor in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Sheffield in England. His books include "The Archaeology...
Jacquetta Hawkes

Jacquetta Hawkes

female, deceased (1996)
Nobel Prize, Archaeologist, British, Non-fiction writer, J.B. Priestley, Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Jacquetta Hawkes, née Hopkins, (August 5 1910 - March 18 1996) was a British archaeologist. The daughter of Nobel Prize-winning scientist, Sir F...
Eilat Mazar

Eilat Mazar

female, 50 years old
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni, bulla, Achzib, Large Stone, Large Stone structure, Alleged Palace of David site…Archaeologist
Eilat Mazar is a third-generation Israeli archaeologist, specializing in Jerusalem and Phoenician archaeology. A senior fellow at the Shalem...
Mortimer Wheeler

Mortimer Wheeler

male, deceased (1976)
Army Officer, Television presenter, Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, Knights Bachelor, British Academy, Scottish…Archaeologist
Brigadier Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler CH, CIE, MC, FBA, FSA (September 10, 1890 Glasgow – July 22, 1976 London), was one of the best-known Br...
Marija Gimbutas

Marija Gimbutas

female, deceased (1994)
Archaeologist, Old Europe, Old European Culture, Bronze Age, lithuanian, vilnius
Marija Gimbutas (Vilnius, Lithuania January 23, 1921 – Los Angeles, United States February 2, 1994) a Lithuanian-American archeologist, re...
Israel Finkelstein

Israel Finkelstein

male
Israeli, Nadav Na'aman, Baruch Halpern, Amarna tablets, Oxford Annotated Bible, The New Oxford Annotated Bible…Archaeologist
Israel Finkelstein is the Jacob M. Alkow Professor of Archaeology of Israel in the Bronze Age and Iron Ages at Tel Aviv University. Born in Petah...
Alexander Thom

Alexander Thom

male, deceased (1985)
Christian, Megalithic yard, professor, engineer, Archaeologist, oxford university press
Professor Alexander Thom was a Scottish engineer most famous for his theory of the Megalithic yard. A graduate of the University of Glasgow, he...
Gertrude Bell

Gertrude Bell

female, deceased (1926)
jordan, Inter-War spy, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, World War I, Drug-related death, British…Archaeologist
Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell was a British writer, traveller, political analyst, administrator in Arabia, and an archaeologist who found...
Hershel Shanks

Hershel Shanks

male, 79 years old
New York Times, Biblical Archaeology Society, A Facsimile Edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Israeli Supreme Court, Richard Bernstein, Copyright…Archaeologist
Hershel Shanks (born March 8, 1930, Sharon, Pennsylvania) is the founder of the Biblical Archaeology Society and the editor of the Biblical...