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Leonard woolley
Mesopotamia worked in UR. One of the 1st cities. Found a
Boucher de perthes
Abbeville known for finding flint tools(chipped pointed stone tools) in the gravels of Abbeville.
Queen puabi
Royal Cemetary at UR
She was akkadian,
Sir Leonard Woolley found the tomb at Royal cemetery of UR.
Her tomb was untouched by looters.
Howard carter
Deit Al:Bahri found king Tut in the valley of kings
James deetz:
Frequency Seriation
Hatshepsut
son tried to deletimize her.
Brought great wealth to Egypt.
Tutankhamum
Thebes found by Howard Carter.
Undisturbed tomb
Youngest king
Most complete tomb ever found
Moved capital back to Thebes.
Sennacherib
Nineveh moved the capital to Nineveh.
Took over Babylon but left citizens unharmed.
Nebuchadnezzar:
Solomonic(First) Temple destroyed 1st temple(solomonic).
Was a Babylonian leader.
King David
Kingdom of Israel the 2nd king of Israel.
Also a king of Judah.
Established a mighty empire, conquered lands of Philistines and much more.
Flavius Silva:
was a late:1st century Roman general, governor of the province of Iudaea and consul. History remembers Silva as the Roman commander who led his army, composed mainly of the Legio X Fretensis, in 73 AD up to Masada and laid siege to its near:impenetrable mountain fortress occupied by a group of Jewish rebels called the Sicarii.
The end of the seige culminated with the mass suicide of the Sicarii who preferred death to defeat or capture.
Flavius Josephus:
also known as Yosef Ben Matityahu (Joseph, son of Matthias) and, after he became a Roman citizen, as Titus Flavius Josephus,[2] was a first century Jewish historian and apologist of priestly and royal ancestry who survived and recorded the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70.
His works give an important insight into first:century Judaism.
Hammurabi
is known for the set of laws called Hammurabi's Code, one of the first written codes of law in recorded history.
These laws were written on a stone tablet standing over six feet tall that was found in 1901.
Owing to his reputation in modern times as an ancient law:giver, Hammurabi's portrait is in many government buildings throughout the world.
William Longacre:
he is probably best known for his early contributions to the study of ethnoarchaeology.
He studied pueblo villages in the American southwest and hypothesized that you could tell matrilocality (i.e., whether women resided with their families or their husband's families after marriage) from the spatial distribution of potsherd decorative styles within a settlement.
Alexander the Great
was an ancient Greek King (basileus) of Macedon (336–323 BC).
He was one of the most successful military commanders of all time and is presumed undefeated in battle.
By the time of his death, he had conquered (see Wars of Alexander the Great) most of the world known to the ancient Greeks.
Willard Libby
was an American physical chemist,
famous for his role in the 1949 development of radiocarbon dating, a process which revolutionized archaeology.
Roman Empire
the Roman Empire was the post:Republican phase of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean.
Muhammad:
is the central human figure of the religion of Islam and is regarded by Muslims as the messenger and prophet of God (Arabic: الله‎ Allāh), the last and the greatest law:bearer in a series of prophets of Islam. Muslims consider him the restorer of the uncorrupted original monotheistic faith (islām) of Adam, Abraham, Moses, Noah, Jesus (Isa) and other prophets of Islam. He was also active as a diplomat, merchant, philosopher, orator, legislator, reformer, military general, and, for Muslims and followers of several other religions, an agent of divine action.
Peleset:
were a people who occupied the southern coast of Canaan,
their territory being named Philistia in later contexts.
A.E. Douglass:
was an American astronomer.
He discovered a correlation between tree rings and the sunspot cycle.
Akhenaton (Amenophis IV)
The father of Tutkenkamen and also who reformed Eygpt to a monotheistic religions reform to worship the sun God Anon.
J.J. Burckhardt
discovered petra however his oridginal mission was to find the head waters of niger but instead made an accident discovery.
Emile Paul Botta
he studied khorsabed
Jacques Couvier
School of thought was catatrophicism where it was to believed supernatural process can be explained or intereputed by catastrophic events or divine intervention
King A:Bar:Gi
He was buried in the death put Ur and his tomb was emptied believed to be looted next to queen punabi
James Ussher
as Anglican Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland between 1625–1656.
He was a prolific scholar, who most famously published a chronology that purported to time and date creation to the night preceding 23 October 4004 BC, according to the proleptic Julian calendar.
J.J. Winckelmann
A librarian hired to sort out the artifacts found at the property of Charles and Maria he found pieces of statues especially interesting and found they were human but in a different style and he also made stylus exteration which is a form of dating.
Paul Kirchhoff
was a German anthropologist, most noted for his seminal work in defining and elaborating the culture area of Mesoamerica, a term he coined.
Maya
constitute a diverse range of the Native American peoples of southern Mexico and northern Central America.
Olmec
were an ancient Pre:Columbian people living in the tropical lowlands of south:central Mexico, in what are roughly the modern:day states of Veracruz and Tabasco.