Austen Henry Layard, Hormuzd Rassam, the legends of Assyria

Henri Mouhot, the temple of Angkor

Heinrich Schliemann, the walls of Troy

Sir Arthur Evans, Knossos and the Minotaur

Edward Thompson, the sacred well at Chichen Itza

Hiram Bingham, the Inca hideaway at machu Picchu

Howard Carter, the tomb of Tutankhamen

Kathleen Kenyon, the biblical city of Jericho.