Included too, with their own photographic work, are such historical
figures as archaeologist / writer / secret agent Gertrude Bell (1868 — 1926), who played a major role in the establishment of modern Iraq.
Not exact matches
Archaeologists in Israel may have just made a significant discovery leading to further evidence that King David was an actual historical
figure as described in the Bible, and not a mythical one.
Archaeologists have unearthed proto - dynastic religious artefacts, such
as carved
figures from Badari burial grounds, going back 1000 years before the 1st Pharaoh.
Because some of these
figures are recognizably female in shape,
archaeologists sometimes refer to them
as «fat ladies» and associate them with the celebration of fertility, both human and agricultural.
He is also one of archaeology's most controversial
figures, winning praise from foreign
archaeologists, who say he has done much to modernize an antiquated system,
as well
as scorn from those who say he claims credit for others» discoveries.
Le marais belongs to a series of pictorial, performative, and textual works that explore archaeological excavations and the
figure of the
archaeologist as analogies for artistic practice.