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Archaeology

A	Abū Simbel Abydos (Egypt) Albright, William Foxwell Altamira Antonine Wall Archaeoastronomy Archaeology

B	Babylon (ancient city) Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse Belzoni, Giovanni Battista Biblical Archaeology Binford, Lewis Roberts Bog Bodies Borobudur Botta, Paul Émile Boucher de Crèvecoeur de Perthes, Jacques Boxgrove Breasted, James Henry Bronze Age Bubastis Budge, Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Byblos

C	Callanish Capernaum Carnarvon, George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carter, Howard Champollion, Jean François Chan Chan Chavín de Huantar Chichén Itzá Childe, Vere Gordon Chimú Cnidus Crannog Cross-Dating Cyclades

Dolmen

E	Easter Island Ebers, Georg Moritz Ebla Evans, Sir Arthur John

F	Fellows, Sir Charles Fort Ancient Forum

Gagarino

H	Hadrian’s Wall Hallstatt Culture Heliopolis (ancient Egypt) Herculaneum Hrozný, Bedřich

I	Iceman Indus Valley Civilization Iron Age

K	Kensington Rune Stone Kent’s Cavern Kitchen Midden Knossos

L	La Tène Culture Lascaux Lepsius, Karl Richard Longshan Culture

M	Machu Picchu Mary Rose Masada Megalithic Monuments Minoan Culture Mitla Mogollon Mohenjo-Daro Monte Albán Mycenae

N	Naj‘Ḩammādī

O	Offa’s Dyke Olduvai Gorge Olmec

P	Pausanias (historian) Persepolis Petrie, Sir (William Matthew) Flinders Plataea Pompeii Prehistory

Qumrān

R	Rawlinson, Sir Henry Creswicke Rosetta Stone

S	Schliemann, Heinrich Silbury Hill Skara Brae Stein, Sir (Mark) Aurel Stephens, John Lloyd Stone Age Stone Tool Stonehenge Sutton Hoo

T	Tall al ‘Amārinah Tanagra Tanis Tara Teotihuacán Thebes (Egypt) Timgad Tiwanaku Troy (Asia Minor) Tula (Mexico)

V	Valley of the Kings Villanovan Culture Virchow, Rudolf

W	Winckelmann, Johann Joachim

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