The Most Famous

ARCHAEOLOGISTS from Mexico

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This page contains a list of the greatest Mexican Archaeologists. The pantheon dataset contains 151 Archaeologists, 1 of which were born in Mexico. This makes Mexico the birth place of the 34th most number of Archaeologists behind Canada, and Pakistan.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Mexican Archaeologists of all time. This list of famous Mexican Archaeologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Leonardo López Luján (b. 1964)

With an HPI of 34.13, Leonardo López Luján is the most famous Mexican Archaeologist.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.

Leonardo Náuhmitl López Luján (born 31 March 1964 in Mexico City) is an archaeologist and one of the leading researchers of pre-Hispanic Central Mexican societies and the history of archaeology in Mexico. He is director of the Templo Mayor Project in Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) since 1991 and son of renowned historian Alfredo López Austin. He is fellow of El Colegio Nacional, the British Academy, the Society of Antiquaries of London, the Real Academia de la Historia in Madrid, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the Archaeological Institute of America, and the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in Paris.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Mexican archaeologists born between 1964 and 1964. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Mexican archaeologists include Leonardo López Luján.

Living Mexican Archaeologists

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