Importent NPCs
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The finder Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922.
(May 9, 1874 – March 2, 1939) was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist.
Born in the London district of Kensington, his childhood was spent primarily in the market town of Swaffham, Norfolk, where he lived with his maiden aunts.[2] He is most famous as the discoverer of KV62, the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt.
In 1891, at the age of 17, Carter began studying inscriptions and paintings in Egypt. He worked on the excavation of Beni Hasan, the grave site of the princes of Middle Egypt, c. 2000 BC. Later he came under the tutelage of William Flinders Petrie.
He is also famous for finding the remains of Queen Hatshepsut's tomb in Deir el-Bahri. In 1899, Carter was offered a job working for the Egyptian Antiquities Service (EAS), from which he resigned as a result of a dispute between Egyptian site guards and a group of French tourists in 1905.
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[sblock=Professor James Edward Quibell] (11 November 1867 - June 5, 1935[1]) was a British Egyptologist, born in Newport, Shropshire.
He was educated at Adams' Grammar School and Christ Church, Oxford. He was fascinated by the antiquities, and offered himself as a pupil to Professor William Matthew Flinders Petrie, with whom he had worked at Coptos in 1893, then at Nagada, Buleas, Thebes, El Kab, and Hierakonpolis in successive years. After six months' study at Berlin University he was appointed to the Catalogue Commission of the Egyptian Museum, and in 1899 as an inspector on the staff of the Antiquities Department, his colleague being Mr. Howard Carter.
He worked at Saqqara, in the Valley of the Kings (where he discovered the tomb of Yuya and Tjuyu in 1905) and at Hierakonpolis (ancient Nekhen), where amongst other discoveries his team found the Narmer Palette in 1898. In 1898 he was made an inspector of the Antiquities Service for the Delta and Middle Egyptian regions. He later served as director of the Egyptian Museum from 1914-1923 and Secretary-General of the Antiquities Service until 1925 when he retired.
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[sblock=Journalis/Writer Arthur Edward Pearse Brome Weigall] English Egyptologist, stage designer, journalist and author whose works span the whole range from histories of Ancient Egypt through historical biographies, guide-books, popular novels, screenplays and lyrics.
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[sblock=Photographer Harry Burton] (1879–1940) was an English Egyptologist and archaeological photographer. Born in Lincolnshire, England, he is best known for his photographs of excavations in Egypt's Valley of the Kings at the beginning of the 20th century. His most famous photographs may be those he took documenting Howard Carter's excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922. The Times published 142 of these images on February 21, 1923.
*Burton (left) and Carter (right)
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[sblock=Professor Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie] FRS (3 June 1853 – 28 July 1942), known as Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology. 1923 saw Petrie knighted for services to British archaeology and Egyptology. In 1926, the focus of Petrie’s work shifted permanently to Palestine (though he did become interested in early Egypt, in 1928 digging a cemetery at Luxor which proved so huge that he devised an entirely new excavation system, including comparison charts for finds which are still used today).
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[sblock=Professor Henri 'Hans' Frankfort] (February 24, 1897 - July 16, 1954) was a Dutch Egyptologist, archaeologist and orientalist. Born in Amsterdam, Frankfort studied history at the University of Amsterdam and then moved to London, where in 1924, he took an MA under Sir Flinders Petrie at the University College. In 1927 he gained a Ph.D. from the University of Leiden. He married Henriette Groenwegen and later Enriqueta Harris. Between 1925 and 1929 Frankfort was director of the excavations of the Egypt Exploration Society (EES) of London at El-Amarna, Abydos and Armant.
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[sblock=Elizabeth Thomason] (March 29, 1907 – November 28, 1986) was an American Egyptologist. She is NPCed by me, during the time of adventure she is a M.Sc student.
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[sblock=Professor Frederick Jones Bliss] (1857 - 1939) was an American archaeologist. After training under Flinders Petrie in Egypt, Bliss became involved with the Palestine Exploration Fund working in the field of Biblical archaeology at the site of Tell el-Hesi between 1894 and 1897.
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[sblock=William Foxwell Albright ]
(May 24, 1891–September 19/September 20, 1971) was an American archaeologist, biblical scholar, linguist and expert on ceramics. From the early twentieth century until his death, he was the dean of biblical archaeologists and the universally acknowledged founder of the Biblical archaeology movement. His student George Ernest Wright followed in his footsteps as the leader of that movement.
Albright was born in Coquimbo, Chile, the eldest of six children of Amercian evangelical Methodist missionaries Wilbur Finley and Zephine Viola Foxwell Albright. He married Dr. Ruth Norton in 1921 and had four sons. He received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1916 and took a professorship there in 1927, he is now a Professor of Semitic Languages (1930). He was also the Director of the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem, 1922-1929, and did important archaeological work at such sites in Palestine as Gibeah (Tell el-Fûl, 1922).
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[sblock=Anna Yafe]
Anna Yafe, (born 1909) In Kiev, she immigrant with her parents to London and began B.A in nursery in University college of London. She shares a room in the University’s dorms with Elizabeth.
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[sblock=Bill Gabso the IV]
A young (born 1900) arrogant and braggart man, he is a local gambler and wealthy business man … Some say even a gangster. You’ll find him on the hottest parties and balls, paddling with known celebrities. His motto is “every thing and everyone can be bought for money”.
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[sblock=Father David Hickle]
Father Hickle, (born 1893) A young catholic priest of the local church, he was born in York. He began his studies in the University of London but withdrew 2 years later and began a clergy man. he is a good friend of Professor James Edward Quibell and Prof Henri 'Hans' Frankfort.
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[sblock=Thomas Hopkins]
(born 1970) A known English Egyptologist and archaeological painter, join almost all the expeditions to Egypt. His artwork can be seen in the museum of Art, London.
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