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Born August 27, 1865 • Rockford • Illinois
Died December 2, 1935 (aged 70) • New York City • New York • (Anniversary in 6 days)

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Rosetta Stone
Jean-François Champollion
French historian and linguist
Sir Flinders Petrie, detail of an oil painting by George Frederic Watts, 1900; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Sir Flinders Petrie
British archaeologist
Zahi Hawass and Barack Obama
Zahi Hawass
Egyptian archaeologist and official
Gaston Maspero
French Egyptologist
Richard Lepsius.
Richard Lepsius
German Egyptologist
Charlotte Endymion Porter
American editor
Robert J. Braidwood
American anthropologist
Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
American poet
Merwin, W.S.
W.S. Merwin
American poet
Ernest F. Fenollosa
American orientalist and art critic
Robert Lowell, Jr.
American poet
Robert Bly
American author
H.D.
H.D.
American poet
Hearn, Lafcadio
Lafcadio Hearn
British-born writer and translator
Hiram Bingham
Hiram Bingham
American archaeologist and United States senator
Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen
American author
Lydia Davis
American writer
Elisabeth Marbury
American theatrical and literary agent
Gene Savoy
American explorer and religious leader
Robert Hass
American poet and translator