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The Most Famous

ARCHAEOLOGISTS from Ukraine

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This page contains a list of the greatest Ukrainian Archaeologists. The pantheon dataset contains 104 Archaeologists, 1 of which were born in Ukraine. This makes Ukraine the birth place of the 17th most number of Archaeologists behind Kenya and Bulgaria.

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

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1. Yuri Knorozov (1922 - 1999)

With an HPI of 55.20, Yuri Knorozov is the most famous Ukrainian Archaeologist.  His biography has been translated into 27 different languages on wikipedia.

Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov (Russian: Ю́рий Валенти́нович Кноро́зов; 19 November 1922 – 31 March 1999) was a Soviet and Russian linguist, epigrapher, and ethnographer. He became the founder of the Soviet school of Mayan studies, and his identification of the existence of syllabic signs proved an essential step forward in the eventual decipherment of the Mayan script, the writing system used by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization of Mesoamerica.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as archaeologists born between 1922 and 1922. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased archaeologists include Yuri Knorozov.

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