Germaine Ford de Maria
Germaine Ford de Maria was a French philanthropist who funded Egyptologist Christiane Desroches Noblecourt’s excavation of the Valley of the Queens in the 1980s, among other cultural and environmental causes.
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“Whitehawk Woman”
Neolithic woman discovered in England
Praskovya Uvarova
Renowned Russian archeologist
Margaret Stokes
Irish archaeologist and antiquary
Máire de Paor
Irish archaeologist
Sara Yorke Stevenson
American archaeologist; first woman to receive a Sc.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Zelia Nuttall
American archaeologist who made extensive studies in antiquities, history and languages, and was a leading authority on Mexican archaeology and ancient picture writing.
Amelia Edwards
English novelist and egyptologist
Helena Flavia
Saint Helena (247-328), wife of Constantius Chlorus, and mother of Constantine the Great. She won the gratitude of the Christian community by her zeal for the advancement of religion and her acts of piety and munificence.
Lady of Cao
The Lady of Cao is a nickname given to a female Moche mummy discovered in 2005 at the El Brujo archeological site about 45 km north of Trujillo in Peru’s La Libertad Region.