Kate Bosse-Griffiths
She made a unique contribution to twentieth-century Welsh literature by introducing modernist themes not discussed in Welsh previously and is remembered as an eminent Welsh Egyptologist.
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Winifred Lamb
British classical art historian, museum curator and archaeologist.
Hilda Petrie
Hilda Petrie worked with her husband, the renowned William Flinders Petrie, “but she never published anything in her own name, and her contributions were never formally acknowledged. Her husband wrote the reports, headed the excavation teams and garnered all the credit for their finds.”
Peggy Piggott
British archaeologist
Christiane Desroches Noblecourt
Egyptologist who spearheaded an international campaign to save 22 Nubian monuments in Egypt and Sudan, which would have been submerged by the lake created as a result of the construction of the Aswan High Dam.
Gertrude Bell
Gertrude Bell (l. 1868-1926) was an archaeologist, travel writer, explorer, and political administrator.
Dr Josephine Flood
Josephine Flood was an archaeologist whose research highlighted the role of Bogong moths in the lives of Aboriginal people in southern highlands of New South Wales.
Ann Chowning
Ann Chowning was a highly regarded ethnographer particularly well known for her linguistic work, which featured extensive field work in four different Austronesian speaking societies in western Melanesia.
Dr Laila B Haglund
Laila Haglund was an archaeologist who played a significant role in the framing of legislative protection for Aboriginal sites in Australia.
Elizabeth Rawdon
1700s countess of Moira , literary patroness, and antiquarian