Biography Category
( güst´ dwär´ märy t´) (KEY) , 1821–81, French Egyptologist. On a visit (1850–54) to Egypt to collect Coptic manuscripts for the Louvre, he...
(kär´v nä) (KEY) , Ger. Karwin, city (1991 pop. 68,405), NE Czech Republic, in Moravia, near the Polish border. It is an industrial center of the O...
1851–1941, English archaeologist. He was (1884–1908) keeper of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. From 1900 to 1935 he conducted excavations on the G...
(g rts) (KEY) , 1926–, American cultural anthropologist, b. San Francisco. He was a professor of anthropology at the Univ. of Chicago from 1960 to 1...
1913–96, British archaeologist, b. London as Mary Douglas Nichol; wife of Louis Leakey and mother of Richard Leakey. She had little formal education...
(märs ä´n ) (KEY) , 1924–69, American boxer, b. Brockton, Mass. His real name was Rocco Francis Marchegiano. Failing to become a professional bas...