Archaeologists

Question 1

Heinrich Schliemann

Answer 1

1822-1890 German archaeologist - Pioneer in study of Aegean Culture of the Bronze Age - 1st to show that Homer’s Iliad y Virgil’s Aeneid reflect historical events - Excavated Hissarlik (Troy) y Mycenae - Controversially used dynamite to excavate sites

Question 2

Arthur Evans

Answer 2

1851-1941 British archaeologist - Pioneer in study of Aegean civilizations - Excavated Knossos on Crete - Identified Minoan civ y Cretan scripts Linear A and B - Became involved in local affairs y helped create nation of Yugoslavia

Question 3

Howard Carter

Answer 3

1874-1939 British archaeologist y Egyptologist - Discovered the intact tomb of King Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings in 1922

Question 4

Louis Leakey

Answer 4

1903-72 Kenyan archaeologist y paleoanthropologist - Researched human evolutionary development in Africa, through discoveries at Olduvai Gorge with his wife, paleontologist Mary Leakey - Father of Richard Leakey