Epigraphers Epigraphers Epigraphy ( Greek, επιγραφή - "written upon") is the study of inscriptions engraved into stone or other permanent materials, or cast in metal, the science of classifying them as to cultural context and date, elucidating them and assessing what conclusions can be deduced from them. The study of ancient handwriting, usually in ink, is a separate field, Paleography. ...more on Wikipedia about "Epigraphy"
Giovanni Battista de Rossi ( Rome, February 23, 1822– Castel Gandolfo 20 September 1894) was an Italian archaeologist, famous outside his field for his rediscovery of early Christian catacombs. He applied the sciences of archaeology and epigraphy and his thorough knowledge of the topography of Rome and the resources of the Vatican Library, where he was employed cataloguing manuscripts, to Early Christian sites and guided the development of a new field, Christian archeology. He travelled widely, knew all the museum collections intimately and was at the center of a network of professional friendships with all the European scholars of his fields. ...more on Wikipedia about "Giovanni Battista de Rossi"
Sir John Eric Sidney Thompson ( 31 December, 1898– 9 September, 1975) was an English archeologist and Mayanist epigrapher, regarded as the pre-eminent mid- 20th century scholar of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. He was generally known as J. Eric S. Thompson in print and Eric Thompson to his colleagues. ...more on Wikipedia about "J. Eric S. Thompson"
Jean-François Champollion ( 23 December 1790 – 4 March 1832) was a French classical scholar, philologist, orientalist, and Egyptologist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jean-François Champollion"
Josef Keil (b. 1878 in Reichenberg, now Liberec in northern Bohemia in the Czech Republic - d. 1963 in Vienna) was an Austrian historian, epigrapher and an archaeologist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Josef Keil"
Yuri Valentinovich Knorosov (alternatively, Knorozov; in Russian: Юрий Валентинович Кнорозов; b. November 19 1922 — d. March 31 1999) was a Russian linguist, epigrapher and ethnographer, who is renowned for the pivotal role his research played in the decipherment of Maya hieroglyphics. ...more on Wikipedia about "Yuri Knorosov"
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