Someone (Astra?) was asking about archaeological biographies. Apart from
the GREEK TREASURE by Irving Stone, here is a partial list:
Brackman, Arnold C. THE LUCK OF NINEVEH: ARCHAEOLOGY'S GREAT ADVENTURE
(NY: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1978). Biography of Austin Henry Layard, "father of
Assyriology".
Breasted, Charles. PIONEER TO THE PAST: THE STORY OF JAMES HENRY
BREASTED, ARCHAEOLOGIST (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974). Noted
American Egyptologist.
Broderick, Alan Houghton. FATHER OF PREHISTORY: THE ABBE HENRI BREUIL:
HIS LIFE AND TIMES (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1973).
Brunhouse, Robert L. SYLVANUS G. MORLEY AND THE WORLD OF THE ANCIENT MAY
AS (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971.)
Cole, Sonia. LEAKEY'S LUCK: THE LIFE OF LOUIS SEYMOUR LEAKEY, 1903- 1972
(NY: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1975.
Kroeber, Theodora. ALFRED KROEBER: A PERSONAL CONFIGURATION (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1970).
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