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archaeologist

[ahr-kee-ol-uh-jist] / ˌɑr kiˈɒl ə dʒɪst /
NOUN
student of the physical remains of ancient cultures or eras
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Leon Popek, an archaeologist with Poland’s Institute of National Memory that oversees the digs, said only 850 Polish victims have been found so far—perhaps 1% of the total killed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 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 collection was discovered in 1963 by archaeologist Jose María Soler in a vessel sunk in a dried-out riverbed in Villena.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 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

He was polishing the metal clasp surrounding the snakestone, as gently and as carefully as an archaeologist on a dig, taking off the black and revealing the glittering silver beneath it.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman

For decades, archaeologists have disagreed about what happened to the people living near the eruption.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

Instead, archaeologists analysed the shape of the amphorae.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

The archaeologists say the ship started its voyage from somewhere along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

What archaeologists once regarded primarily as prehistoric glue may also have been a useful substance for protecting wounds, offering another intriguing possibility about the origins of human medical knowledge.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

For much of the last century archaeologists believed that Indians came to the Americas through the Bering Strait about thirteen thousand years ago at the tail end of the last Ice Age.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann


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