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Archaeology is a discipline that was virtually unknown until the 19th century. Archaeology, originally an amateur pastime, is becoming increasingly popular, and it is now possible for archaeologists to become minor celebrities as a result of media exposure.This is a list of eminent and well-known archaeologists.
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- Frank Calvert
- Luigi CaninaLuigi Canina ( 1795 1856) was an Italian archaeologist and architect. Born at Casale in Piedmont, he became professor of architecture at Turin, and his most important works were the excavation of Tusculum in 1829 and of the Appian Way in 1848, the results
- Howard CarterHoward Carter ( May 9, 1874 March 2, 1939) was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist famous as the discoverer of KV62 the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt. Childhood and Education Carter did much work in Egypt, starting in
- Joanna Casey
- Jaroslav Cerny
- Dilip Chakrabarti
- Jean-François ChampollionFor the comet rendezvous spacecraft, see Champollion (spacecraft). Jean-Francois Champollion ( December 23, 1790 March 4, 1832) is remembered particularly for one achievement: the translation of the Rosetta stone, which became the basis of the study of Eg
- Vere Gordon ChildeVere Gordon Childe ( April 14, 1892 October 19, 1957) was an Australian archaeologist, perhaps best known for his excavation of the unique Neolithic site of Skara Brae in Orkney and for his Marxist views which informed his thinking about prehistory. He is
- Leopoldo CicognaraCount Leopoldo Cicognara ( 17 November, 1767 5 March, 1834) was an Italian archaeologist and writer on art. Cicognara was born at Ferrara. Mathematical and physical science diverted him a while; but his bent was decided, and not even the notice of such me
- Grahame Clark
- David Clarke
- John Coles
- Sir Richard Colt HoareRichard Colt Hoare ( 9 December, 1758 7 May, 1838) was an English antiquarian and archaeologist of the early nineteenth century. He was descended from Sir Richard Hoare, Lord Mayor of London, the founder of the family banking business. An ample allowance
- Graham Connah
- O.G.S. Crawford
- Georg Friedrich Creuzer
- Joseph George Cumming
- Barry Cunliffe
- William Cunnington
- James Curle
- Ernst Curtius
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