archaeologist
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Angus Wainwright, regional archaeologist for the National Trust's East of England region, said the structure had always intrigued him.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Sudan is hardly the first war-ravaged Middle Eastern nation to have its heritage stolen and sold, said Amr Al-Azm, a Syrian archaeologist and co-director of the Antiquities Trafficking and Heritage Anthropology Research Project.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
The excellence of all the Egyptian works is explained when we learn that the British archaeologist Howard Carter, who excavated the tomb of Tutankamen, was Gulbenkian’s adviser.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
"The discoveries from the excavations, especially coins bearing Homer's likeness, show us that the inhabitants of ancient Smyrna considered the poet to be one of their own," archaeologist Mehmet Akif Erdem said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
According to William Woods, the geographer and archaeologist at the University of Kansas, Monks Mound completely covers whatever habitation these people had before they built Cahokia.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
It wasn’t until after the Soviet collapse in 1991 that the newly independent Ukraine permitted Polish archaeologists to conduct exhumations in Volhynia to reveal the extent of the slaughter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Katy McMonagle, one of the archaeologists who dug the whale head out, said the fossil was difficult to move and very heavy.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
The workplace at the center of “Dig” is an excavation site in Greece, where Poehler’s Elise is among a team of archaeologists that unearths a rare artifact.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Yet, while archaeologists have long focused on preserving these treasures, the people themselves were often forgotten.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
At a Brazilian rock shelter named Pedra Furada, archaeologists found cave paintings undoubtedly made by humans.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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