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| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Israel Finkelstein | Israel Finkelstein | 1949 | n/a | Israeli | archaeologist, professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Finkelstein |
| Robert Eisenman | Robert Eisenman | 1937 | n/a | American | biblical scholar, historian, archaeologist, and poet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Eisenman |
| William G. Dever | William Gwinn Dever | 1933 | n/a | American | archaeologist, Old Testament scholar, and historian, specialized in the history of the Ancient Near East and the ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah in biblical times | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_G._Dever |
| Ronny Reich | Ronny Reich | 1947 | n/a | Israeli | archaeologist, excavator and scholar of the ancient remains of Jerusalem | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronny_Reich |
| Ernst Herzfeld | Ernst Emil Herzfeld | 1879 | 1948 | German | archaeologist and Iranologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Herzfeld |
| Max von Oppenheim | Baron Max von Oppenheim | 1860 | 1946 | German | lawyer, diplomat, ancient historian, and archaeologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_von_Oppenheim |
| Peter Levi | Peter Chad Tigar Levi, FSA, FRSL | 1931 | 2000 | British | poet, archaeologist, Jesuit priest, travel writer, biographer, academic and prolific reviewer and critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Levi |
| Zdenko Vinski | Zdenko Vinski | 1913 | 1996 | null | notable Croatian archaeologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zdenko_Vinski |
| Michael Avi-Yonah | Dr. Michael Avi-Yonah | 1904 | 1974 | Israeli | archaeologist and historian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Avi-Yonah |
| Amihai Mazar | Amihai "Ami" Mazar | 1942 | n/a | Israeli | archaeologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amihai_Mazar |
| Benjamin Mazar | Benjamin Mazar | 1906 | 1995 | null | pioneering Israeli historian, recognized as the "dean" of biblical archaeologists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Mazar |
| David Noel Freedman | David Noel Freedman | 1922 | 2008 | American | biblical scholar, author, editor, archaeologist, and, after his conversion from Judaism, a Presbyterian minister | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Noel_Freedman |
| Nelson Glueck | Nelson Glueck | 1900 | 1971 | American | rabbi, academic and archaeologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Glueck |
| Salomon Reinach | Salomon Reinach | 1858 | 1932 | French | archaeologist, religious historian and was a major figure in the Franco-Jewish establishment in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salomon_Reinach |
| Avraham Biran | Avraham Biran | 1909 | 2008 | Israeli | archaeologist, best known for heading excavations at Tel Dan in northern Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avraham_Biran |
| Leo Klejn | Lev Samuilovich Kleyn | 1927 | 2019 | Russian | archaeologist, anthropologist and philologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Klejn |
| Eilat Mazar | Eilat Mazar | 1956 | 2021 | Israeli | archaeologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eilat_Mazar |
| Felix Philipp Kanitz | Felix Philipp Kanitz | 1829 | 1904 | Austrian | naturalist, geographer, ethnographer, archaeologist, painter and author of travel notes, of Jewish heritage | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Philipp_Kanitz |
| Robert Mond | Sir Robert Ludwig Mond, FRS, FRSE | 1867 | 1938 | British | chemist and archaeologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mond |
| Henri Frankfort | Henri "Hans" Frankfort | 1897 | 1954 | Dutch | Egyptologist, archaeologist and orientalist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Frankfort |
| Yohanan Aharoni | Yohanan Aharoni | 1919 | 1976 | Israeli | archaeologist and historical geographer, chairman of the Department of Near East Studies and chairman of the Institute of Archaeology at Tel-Aviv University | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yohanan_Aharoni |
| Eleazar Sukenik | Eleazar Lipa Sukenik | 1889 | 1953 | Israeli | archaeologist and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleazar_Sukenik |
| Ofer Bar-Yosef | Ofer Bar-Yosef | 1937 | 2020 | Israeli | archaeologist and anthropologist whose main field of study was the Palaeolithic period | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofer_Bar-Yosef |
| Nahman Avigad | Nahman Avigad | 1905 | 1992 | Israeli | archaeologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahman_Avigad |
| Jean-Baptiste Ventura | Jean-Baptiste | 1794 | 1858 | Italian | soldier, mercenary in India, general in Maharaja Ranjit Singh's Sarkar-i-Khalsa, and early archaeologist of the Punjab region of the Sikh Empire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Ventura |
| Gabriel Barkay | Gabriel Barkay | null | null | Israeli | archaeologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Barkay |
| Gustav Hirschfeld | Gustav Hirschfeld | 1847 | 1895 | German | classical archaeologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Hirschfeld |
| Eduard Glaser | Eduard Glaser | 1855 | 1908 | Austrian | Arabist and archaeologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Glaser |
| Margarete Bieber | Margarete Bieber | 1879 | 1978 | German | Jewish-American art historian, classical archaeologist and professor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margarete_Bieber |
| Lis Jacobsen | Elisabeth | 1882 | 1961 | Danish | philologist, archaeologist and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis_Jacobsen |
| Yoram Tsafrir | Yoram Tsafrir | 1938 | 2015 | Israeli | archaeologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoram_Tsafrir |
| Hetty Goldman | Hetty Goldman | 1881 | 1972 | American | archaeologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetty_Goldman |
| Théodore Reinach | Théodore Reinach | 1860 | 1928 | French | archaeologist, mathematician, lawyer, papyrologist, philologist, epigrapher, historian, numismatist, musicologist, professor, and politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Théodore_Reinach |
| Trude Dothan | Trude Dothan | 1922 | 2016 | Israeli | archaeologist who focused on the Late Bronze and Iron Ages in the region, in particular in Philistine culture | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trude_Dothan |
| Ruth Amiran | Ruth Amiran | 1914 | 2005 | Israeli | archaeologist whose book Ancient Pottery of the Holy Land: From Its Beginnings in the Neolithic Period to the End of the Iron Age which was published in 1970 is a standard reference for archaeologists working in Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Amiran |
| James Millingen | James Millingen | 1774 | 1845 | Dutch | archaeologist, now known as a numismatist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Millingen |
| Charles Waldstein | Sir Charles Waldstein | 1856 | 1927 | null | Anglo-American archaeologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Waldstein |
| Iris Love | Iris Cornelia Love | 1933 | 2020 | American | classical archaeologist, best known for the rediscovery of the Temple of Aphrodite in Knidos | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_Love |
| Karl Leo Heinrich Lehmann | Karl Leo Heinrich Lehmann | 1894 | 1960 | German | art historian, archaeologist, and professor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Leo_Heinrich_Lehmann |
| Annie Nicolette Zadoks Josephus Jitta | Annie Nicolette Zadoks Josephus Jitta | 1904 | 2000 | Dutch | numismatist and archaeologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Nicolette_Zadoks_Josephus_Jitta |
| Cave of Horror | Cave of Horror | null | null | null | nickname given to what archaeologists have catalogued as Nahal Hever Cave 8 (8Hev) of the Judaean Desert, Israel, where the remains of Jewish refugees from the Bar Kokhba revolt (c | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_Horror |
| George M. A. Hanfmann | George Maxim Anossov Hanfmann | 1911 | 1986 | null | famous archaeologist and scholar of ancient Mediterranean art | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_M._A._Hanfmann |
| Nahum Slouschz | Nahum Slouschz | 1872 | 1966 | Russian | writer, translator and archaeologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahum_Slouschz |
| Emanuel Löwy | Em(m)anuel Löwy, or Emanuel Loewy | 1857 | 1938 | null | classical archaeologist and theorist who employed the methodology of universal psychological sources of form in his work | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Löwy |
| Emmanuel Anati | Emmanuel Anati | 1930 | n/a | Italian | archaeologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Anati |
| Alexander H. Joffe | Alexander H. Joffe | 1959 | n/a | null | archaeologist and historian of the Near East | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_H._Joffe |
| Shmarya Guttman | Shmarya Guttman | 1909 | 1996 | Israeli | archaeologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmarya_Guttman |
| Sally Binford | Sally Binford | 1924 | 1994 | null | archaeologist and feminist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Binford |
| Pessah Bar-Adon | Pessah Bar-Adon | 1907 | 1985 | Polish | archaeologist and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pessah_Bar-Adon |
| Babatha | Babatha (also known as Babata) | null | null | null | Jewish woman who lived in the town of Maḥoza (at the south-eastern tip of the Dead Sea in what is now Jordan) at the beginning of the second century CE. In 1960, archaeologist Yigael Yadin discovered a leather pouch containing her personal documents in what came to be known as the Cave of Letters, near the Dead Sea | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babatha |
| Elisabeth Jastrow | Elisabeth Jastrow | 1890 | 1981 | German | classical archaeologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Jastrow |
| Edward Bleiberg | Edward "Ed" Bleiberg | 1951 | n/a | American | archaeologist and Egyptologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bleiberg |
| Alda Levi | Alda Levi Spinazzola | 1890 | 1950 | Italian | archaeologist and art historian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alda_Levi |
| Nathan Davis (traveller) | Nathan Davis | 1812 | 1882 | British | archaeologist known for his work on the site of Carthage | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Davis_(traveller) |
| Jay Gluck | Jay Fred Gluck | 1927 | 2000 | American | archaeologist and historian of Persian art and a Japanophile | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Gluck |
| Peter Aleshkovsky | Pyotr Markovich Aleshkovsky | 1957 | n/a | Russian | writer, historian, broadcaster, television presenter, journalist and archaeologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Aleshkovsky |
| Samuel Schwarz (historian) | Samuel Schwarz | 1880 | 1953 | Polish | Jewish mining engineer, archaeologist, and historian of the Jewish diaspora, specifically of the Sephardic and crypto-Jewish communities of Portugal and Spain | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Schwarz_(historian) |
| Raoul Curiel | Raoul Curiel | 1913 | 2000 | French | archaeologist, egyptologist and orientalist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_Curiel |
| Moshe Stekelis | Moshe Stekelis | 1898 | 1967 | Russian | born archaeologist who excavated the Neolithic Yarmukian culture at Sha'ar HaGolan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Stekelis |
| Ludwig Pollak | Ludwig Pollak | 1868 | 1943 | Austrian | classical archaeologist, antiquities dealer, and director of the Museo Barracco di Scultura Antica in Rome | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Pollak |
| Abraham Lissauer | Abraham Lissauer | 1832 | 1908 | German | physician and archaeologist born in Berent, West Prussia (today- Kościerzyna, Poland) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lissauer |
| Shemuel Yeivin | Shemuel Yeivin | 1896 | 1982 | Israeli | archaeologist and the first director of the Israel Antiquities Authority | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shemuel_Yeivin |
| Paul Borchardt | Paul Borchardt | 1886 | 1953 | German | archaeologist, a pupil of the geographer Siegfried Passarge | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Borchardt |
| Gerson Levi-Lazzaris | Gerson Levi-Lazzaris | 1979 | n/a | Brazilian | archaeologist, descendant of Ladin immigrants | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerson_Levi-Lazzaris |
| Robert Arnott (academic) | Robert Arnott | null | null | null | medical archaeologist, who was Sub-Dean of Medicine, Director of the Centre for the History of Medicine (which he founded), and, unusually, Director of the Institute of Medical Law in the University of Birmingham Medical School, until his early retirement in 2008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Arnott_(academic) |
| Olaf H. Olsen | Olaf Heymann Olsen | 1928 | 2015 | Danish | historian and archaeologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaf_H._Olsen |
| Alphons Barb | Alphons Augustinus Barb | 1901 | 1979 | Austrian | academic, archaeologist, numismatist, museum director and author who received recognition both from his native Austria and in Britain for his contribution to the Arts and Sciences | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphons_Barb |
| Moshe Prausnitz | Moshe (Max) W. Prausnitz | 1922 | 1998 | Israeli | archaeologist who specialized in the prehistory field | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Prausnitz |
| Georg Zappert | Georg Zappert | 1806 | 1859 | Hungarian | historian and archaeologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Zappert |
| Sevʹyan I. Vainshtein | Sevyan Izrailevich Vainshtein | 1926 | 2008 | Russian | ethnographer, archaeologist, historian and explorer of Siberian and Central Asian peoples | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevʹyan_I._Vainshtein |