Thomas Geoffrey Bibby 14 October 1917 – 6 February 2001, Aarhus was an English-born archaeologist. He is best known for discovering the ancient state of Dilmun, referred to in Mesopotamian mythology as a paradise. He is often considered to have been the pioneer of Arabian archaeology. Contents 1Biography 2Excavations 3Writings 4References 5External links Biography Thomas Geoffrey Bibby was born on 14 October 1917,
James Theodore Bent 30 March 1852 – 5 May 1897 was an English explorer, archaeologist and author. Contents 1Biography 1.1Archaeological research 2Legacy 3Notes 4References 5External links Biography James Theodore Bent was the son of James Bent of Baildon House, near Bradford, Yorkshire, where he was born. He was educated at Repton School and Wadham College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1875. In 1877 he
Thomas Bateman 8 November 1821 (baptised) – 28 August 1861 was an English antiquary and barrow-digger. Contents 1Biography 2Publications 3References 4External links Biography Thomas Bateman was born in Rowsley, Derbyshire, England, the son of the amateur archaeologist William Bateman. After the death of his father in 1835, Bateman was raised by his grandfather, and from the age of 16 he helped run
Philip Arthur Barker (22 August 1920 – 2001) was a British archaeologist most famous for his work on excavation methodology. He left school with no qualifications and served in the RAF during the Second World War before training as a teacher. He taught Art at the Priory Grammar School for Boys, Shrewsbury and established a flourishing archaeological society at the school which
Churchill Babington 11 March 1821 – 12 January 1889 was an English classical scholar, archaeologist and naturalist. Life[edit] Born at Rothley Temple, in Leicestershire, he was first educated by his father, Matthew Drake Babington, and then studied under Charles Wycliffe Goodwin, the orientalist and archaeologist. He entered St John’s College, Cambridge in 1839 and graduated in 1843, seventh in the first class of the classical tripos and a senior
Edward Russell Ayrton 17 December 1882 – 18 May 1914 was an English Egyptologist and archaeologist. Edward Russell Ayrton. Contents 1Early life 2Career 3Bibliography 4References 5External links Early life[edit] Ayrton was the son of William Scrope Ayrton (1849-1904), a British consular official in China, and his wife Ellen Louisa McClatchie, and was born in Wuhu, China, on 17 December 1882 (coincidentally, the same
Richard John Copland Atkinson CBE 22 January 1920 – 10 October 1994 was a British prehistorian and archaeologist. Contents 1Biography 2Legacy 3References 4Further reading 5External links Biography[edit] Atkinson was born in Evershot, Dorset, and went to Sherborne School and then Magdalen College, Oxford, reading Philosophy, Politics and Economics. During the Second World War, his Quaker beliefs meant that he was a conscientious objector. In 1944, he became Assistant
Michael Antony Aston FSA 1 July 1946 – 24 June 2013 was an English archaeologist who specialised in Early Medieval landscape archaeology. Over the course of his career, he lectured at both the University of Bristol and University of Oxford and published fifteen books on archaeological subjects. A keen populariser of the discipline, Aston was widely known for appearing as the resident academic on
Leslie Alcock OBE FRSE 24 April 1925 – 6 June 2006 was Professor of Archaeology at the University of Glasgow, and one of the leading archaeologists of Early Mediaeval Britain. His major excavations included Dinas Powys hill fort in Wales, Cadbury Castle in Somerset and a series of major hillforts in Scotland. Contents 1Early years 2Cadbury 3Later career 4Retirement 5Personal life
George Adamson MBE 3 February 1906 – 20 August 1989, also known as the Baba ya Simba (“Father of Lions” in Swahili), was a Kenyan wildlife conservationist and author. He and his wife, Joy, were depicted in the film Born Free and best-selling book with the same title, which is based on the true story of Elsa the Lioness, an orphaned lioness cub they had raised