Based on his accurate description of towns, cities and islands, as well as correctly naming various official titles, archaeologist Sir William Ramsay wrote that " Luke is a historian of the first rank ; not merely are his statements of fact trustworthy ... should be placed along with the very greatest of historians.

* 1867 – Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard, German archaeologist ( b. 1795 )

* William F. Albright, archaeologist who worked on the Dead Sea Scrolls

* May 12 – Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard, German archaeologist ( b. 1795 )

* March 3 – William Stukeley, English archaeologist ( b. 1687 )

* November 7 – William Stukeley, English archaeologist ( d. 1765 )

* William Robertson Smith ( 1846 – 1894 ), philologist, physicist, archaeologist, and Biblical critic

The questions were raised in particular by Orazio Marucchi, whose conclusions won the support of Johann Peter Kirsch, an archaeologist and ecclesiastical historian who is the author of the article on Philomena in the Catholic Encyclopedia, an article that has won the support of the historian William Carroll ; but according to Mark Miravalle the conclusions have been rejected by others.

Albright, which sought to validate the historicity of the events narrated in the Bible through the ancient texts and material remains of the Near East, has little in common with the view of history described by archaeologist William Dever.

William Foxwell Albright ( May 24, 1891 – September 19, 1971 ) was an American archaeologist, biblical scholar, philologist, and expert on ceramics.

Fellow Biblical archaeologist William Dever notes that " central theses have all been overturned, partly by further advances in Biblical criticism, but mostly by the continuing archaeological research of younger Americans and Israelis to whom he himself gave encouragement and momentum ...

Sir William Mitchell Ramsay ( 15 March 1851, Glasgow – 20 April 1939 ) was a Scottish archaeologist and New Testament scholar.

In March 1907, Bell journeyed to the Ottoman Empire and began to work with the archaeologist and New Testament scholar Sir William M. Ramsey.

Films based on British historical events ; RMS Titanic, Piracy in the Caribbean, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Great Escape, historical people ; William Wallace, Lawrence of Arabia, King Arthur, Elizabeth I, British stories ; The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, James Bond, The Chronicles of Narnia, Sherlock Holmes, Frankenstein, A Christmas Carol, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Treasure Island, The War of the Worlds among many others, while British video game Tomb Raider featuring English archaeologist Lara Croft, has been made into feature films.

This was criticised by academic archaeologist William H. Stiebing Jr., who noted that such myths only developed in the 12th to the 14th centuries CE, over a millennium after Velikovsky claimed that the events had occurred, and that the Aztec society itself had not even developed by the 7th century BCE.

Following the 4 March 2007 airing of The Lost Tomb of Jesus on the Discovery Channel, Ted Koppel aired a program entitled ' The Lost Tomb of Jesus-A Critical Look ', whose guests included the director Simcha Jacobovici, James Tabor ( a consultant and advisor on the docudrama ), Johnathan Reed, Professor of Religion at the University of LaVerne and co-author of ' Excavating Jesus Beneath the Stones, Behind the Text ', and William Dever, an archaeologist with 40 plus years experience in Middle Eastern archaeological digs.

Thomas William Francis Gann ( 13 May 1867 – 24 February 1938 ) was a medical doctor by profession, but is best remembered for his work as an amateur archaeologist exploring ruins of the Maya civilization.

This viewpoint was first associated with archaeologist William Sanders who argued for an extreme externalist viewpoint.

From 1955 through 1978, an American archaeologist, William Mulloy, undertook extensive investigation of the production, transportation and erection of Easter Island's monumental statuary.

* William G. Dever ( 1933 -): American biblical archaeologist, known for his contributions to the understanding of early Israel.

Playwright William Goodhart was commissioned to write the screenplay, titled The Heretic, and based it around the theories of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ( the Jesuit paleontologist / archaeologist who inspired the character of Father Merrin when Blatty wrote The Exorcist ).

William Curry Holden ( July 19, 1896-April 21, 1993 ), also known as Curry Holden, was an historian and archaeologist.

* William Boyd Dawkins ( 1837 – 1929 ), British geologist and archaeologist

* Professor William Gowland FRS, British mining engineer and archaeologist.

Lou Dobbs, actor Bill Fagerbakke, and Mayan archaeologist Richard D. Hansen, were raised in Rupert. Also, hot rod shop owner Boyd Coddington and motocross rider and Mx des Nations 2009 winner Jake Weimer are from Rupert.

Professor Sir William Boyd Dawkins, FRS, KBE ( 26 December 1837 – 15 January 1929 ) was a British geologist and archaeologist.

Harriet Boyd Hawes ( October 11, 1871 – March 31, 1945 ) was a pioneering American archaeologist, nurse and relief worker.

* William Boyd Dawkins, geologist and archaeologist.

* Richard MacGillivray Dawkins ( 1871 – 1955 ), British archaeologist

During sporadic excavations at Boğazköy ( Hattusa ) that began in 1906, the archaeologist Hugo Winckler found a royal archive with 10, 000 tablets, inscribed in cuneiform Akkadian and the same unknown language as the Egyptian letters from Kheta — thus confirming the identity of the two names.

In January 2007, Italian archaeologist Irene Iacopi announced that she had probably found the legendary cave beneath the remains of Emperor Augustus's house, the Domus Livia, on the Palatine.

A tooth found in Augusta, Western Australia has been dated to 430 years ago, but archaeologist Oliver Brown disputes this and considers the devil's mainland extinction to have occurred around 3000 years ago.

* October 25 – The wreck of the Confederate submarine Hunley is found off Charleston, South Carolina, by pioneer underwater archaeologist, Dr. E. Lee Spence, then just 22 years old.

Sir Arthur John Evans FRS ( 8 July 1851 – 11 July 1941 ) was a British archaeologist most famous for unearthing the palace of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete and for developing the concept of Minoan civilization from the structures and artifacts found there and elsewhere throughout the eastern Mediterranean.

On November 8, 1977, Greek archaeologist Manolis Andronikos found, among other royal tombs, an unopened tomb at Vergina in the Greek regional unit of Imathia.

The Moche of Northern Peru sacrificed teenagers en masse, as archaeologist Steve Bourget found when he uncovered the bones of 42 male adolescents in 1995.

Aspects of the character Father Merrin were based on the British archaeologist Gerald Lankester Harding, who had excavated the caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls had been found and whom Blatty had met in Beirut.

The most famous undisturbed Pazyryk burial so far recovered is the Ice Maiden or " Altai Lady " found by archaeologist Natalia Polosmak in 1993 at Ukok, near the Chinese border.

According to Michael R. Waters, an archaeologist at Texas A & M University, this discovery is the first hunting weapon found that dates to the pre-Clovis period.

The French archaeologist Albert Gayet worked at Antinoopolis and found much relevant material, but his work, like that of many of his contemporaries, does not satisfy modern standards.

Christopher Guy, the archaeologist of Worcester Cathedral, said he found it odd that, if Arthur had been unhealthy, he was sent to the cold remoteness of Ludlow Castle.

Lukis found two standing stones, but these have since been lost, according to the archaeologist David Johnston.

As an example, in a 4, 000-year-old " kitchen " unearthed in Indiana's Charlestown State Park, archaeologist Bob McCullough of Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne found evidence that natives used large slabs of rock to crush hickory nuts, then boiled them in water to extract the oil.

In 1968 the archaeologist Peter Ucko proposed that the many images found in graves and archaeological sites of Neolithic cultures were toys.

In the late 1980s archaeologist Robert Donceel, while working on the de Vaux materials in a new effort towards publishing excavation reports, found artifacts which he considered did not fit the religious settlement model, including " sophisticated glass and stoneware ".

These include an ancient dragon who falls in love with a tyrannosaurus, a futuristic warrior robot left behind by aliens because it is malfunctioning and has now taken up pottery, a lost crusader who now works in a gas station located somewhere on the timeless road, occasionally asking his customers about the " current " status of the Holy Land, an ancient Sumerian who buries artifacts later to be found by himself as archaeologist, along with the brief appearances of pulp heroes such as Doc Savage and John Sunlight as well as real historical figures, including Jack the Ripper, Marquis de Sade and an angry Adolf Hitler ( who is furiously searching for the place " where he won ").

The Nefertiti bust was found on 6 December 1912 at Amarna by the German Oriental Company ( Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft – DOG ), led by German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt.

The archaeologist C. A. Ralegh Radford declared in 1935 that " No evidence whatsoever has been found to support the legendary connection of the Castle with King Arthur ".

Shinichi Fujimura ( 藤村 新一 Fujimura Shin ' ichi, b. 4 May 1950 ) is a Japanese former amateur archaeologist who claimed he had found a large number of stone artifacts dating back to the Lower Paleolithic and Middle Paleolithic periods.

He established his reputation as a leading amateur archaeologist because he found most of the artifacts on his own.

Excavations near Mound 34 from 2002 – 2010 have revealed a copper workshop, although the one of a kind discovery had been previously found in the 1950s by archaeologist Greg Perino but lost for 60 years.

The Alexander Keiller Museum features the prehistoric artifacts collected by archaeologist and businessman Alexander Keiller, which include many artefacts found at Avebury.

French geologist and amateur archaeologist Madeleine Colani excavated inside the cave in the early 1930 and found archaeological material to support a centralized crematorium theory.