List of well-known Near Eastern archaeologists
This list Near Eastern archaeologists collected that were habilitated for this subject are relevant as authors or other significant contributions to the Middle Eastern archeology have done. They are distinguished from the ancient orientalists , who do not deal with the material legacies of ancient oriental cultures but with their languages, their culture and history, although both disciplines are closely interlinked and dependent on one another.
A.
- William Foxwell Albright (American, 1891-1971)
- Pierre Amiet (French)
- Walter Andrae (German, 1875–1956)
B.
- Thomas Beran (German, 1926–1998)
- Reinhard Bernbeck (German)
- Geoffrey Bibby (British / Danish, 1917–2001)
- Kurt Bittel (German, 1907–1991)
- Daniele Morandi Bonacossi
- Dominik Bonatz (German, * 1966)
- Helmuth Theodor Bossert (German, 1889–1961)
- Paul Émile Botta (French, 1802-1870)
- Linda Braidwood (American, 1909-2003)
- Robert John Braidwood (American, 1907-2003)
- Burchard Brentjes (German, 1936-2010)
- Joachim Bretschneider (* 1961), German archaeologist from the Near East
C.
- Peter Calmeyer (German, 1930–1995)
- Nicola Crüsemann (German, * 1964)
E.
- Margarete van Ess (German, * 1960)
F.
- Henri Frankfort (Dutch, 1897-1954)
G
H
- Harald Hauptmann (German, 1936-2018)
- Ernst Herzfeld (German, 1879–1948)
- Léon Heuzey (French, 1831-1922)
- Barthel Hrouda (German, 1929–2009)
J
- Liane Jakob-Rost (German, * 1928)
K
- Evelyn Klengel-Brandt (German, * 1932)
- Klaus Koch (German, 1926-2019)
- Robert Koldewey (German, 1855-1925)
- Hartmut Kühne (German, * 1943)
L.
- Thomas Edward Lawrence (British, 1888-1935)
- Austen Henry Layard (British, 1817-1894)
- François Lenormant (French, 1837-1883)
- Heinrich Lenzen (German, 1900–1978)
- Manfred Lindner (German, 1918-2007)
- Mary Aiken Littauer (US-American; † 2005)
M.
- Alfred Werner Maurer (German, * 1945)
- Max Mallowan (British, 1904–1978)
- Lutz Martin (German, * 1954)
- Joachim Marzahn (German, * 1949)
- Walter Mayer
- Machteld Mellink (American, 1917-2006)
- Jan-Waalke Meyer (German, * 1945)
- Andreas Müller-Karpe (German, * 1957)
- Michael Müller-Karpe (German, * 1955)
N
- Wolfram Nagel (German, 1923-2019)
- Rudolf Naumann (German, 1910–1996)
- Ezzatollah Negahban (Iranian, 1926-2009)
- Günter Neumann (German, 1920–2005)
- Hans Neumann (German, * 1953)
- Peter Neve (German, 1929-2014)
- Hans Jörg Nissen (German, * 1935)
- Mirko Novák (German-Slovak, * 1965)
- Astrid Nunn (German)
O
- Winfried Orthmann (German, * 1935)
- Susanne Osthoff (German, * 1962)
- Tahsin Özgüç (Turk, 1916-2005)
P
- André Parrot (French, 1901–1980)
- Barbara Patzek (German, * 1948)
- Wendell Phillips (American, 1925-1975)
- Peter Pfälzner (German, * 1960)
R.
- Ellen Rehm
- Michael Rostovtzeff (Ukrainian / American, 1870-1925)
S.
- Beate Salje (German, * 1948)
- Ernest de Sarzec (French, 1832–1901)
- Klaus Schippmann (German, 1924-2010)
- Daniel Schlumberger (French, 1904–1972)
- Klaus Schmidt (German, 1953-2014)
- Erich Friedrich Schmidt (American of German origin, 1897–1964)
- Itamar Singer (Israeli, 1946–2012)
- Eva Strommenger (German, * 1927)
- Elieser Sukenik (Israeli, 1889–1953)
- Dietrich Sürenhagen (German, * 1945)
T
- Tahsin Özgüç (Turk, 1916-2005)
U
- Eckhard Unger (German, 1885–1966)
V
- Charles Virolleaud (French, 1879–1968)
- Burkhard Vogt (German, * 1955)
W.
- Ralf-Bernhard Wartke (German, * 1948)
- Harvey Weiss (American, born 1945)
- Hugo Winckler (German, 1863-1913)
- Leonard Woolley (British, 1880-1960)
Y
- Jak Yakar (Israeli)
Amateurs, autodidacts, amateurs, patrons and collectors
- Agatha Christie (British, 1890-1976)
- Victor Guérin (French, 1821-1891)
- Thomas Edward Lawrence (British, 1888-1935)
- Manfred Lindner (German, 1918-2007)
- Max von Oppenheim (German, 1860–1946)
- Ernest de Sarzec (French, 1832–1901)
- Heinrich Schliemann (German, 1822–1890)
- Sir Wilfred Thesiger (British, 1910-2003)
- Charles Warren (British, 1840-1927)
- Robert Wood (British, 1717-1771)
See also
- List of ancient scholars and archaeologists
- List of well-known Egyptologists
- List of well-known ancient orientalists
- List of known prehistorians
- List of known classical archaeologists
- List of well-known Roman provincial archaeologists
- List of famous Christian archaeologists
- List of well-known building researchers