Englishman and Egyptologist who in 1922 discovered and excavated the tomb of Tutankhamen (1873-1939)

Frenchman and Egyptologist who studied the Rosetta Stone and in 1821 became the first person to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics (1790-1832)

British physicist and Egyptologist; he revived the wave theory of light and proposed a three-component theory of color vision; he also played an important role in deciphering the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone (1773-1829)

an anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture