Biography Category
1902–73, English social anthropologist. He made several expeditions to Africa. His major contributions lie in the fields of social anthropology and ...
1904–41, British archaeologist. He participated in expeditions to Macedonia (1928) and Tell el Amarna (1928–29 and 1930–36). From 1930 to 1934 h...
(h n´r kh shl ´män) (KEY) , 1822–90, German archaeologist, discoverer of the ruins of Troy. He accumulated a fortune in the indigo trade and as a...
(v l´y nt) (KEY) , 1901–45, American archaeologist, b. Boston; grad. Harvard (B.A., 1922; Ph.D., 1927). At the American Museum of Natural History h...
1682–1754, English architect, b. Scotland, studied in Rome under Carlo Fontana. Returning to England in 1709, he was appointed a member of the commi...
(äbd l´ kär m´ käss m´) (KEY) , 1914–63, Iraqi general and politician. A graduate (1934) of the Iraqi military academy, he attended the army s...