• Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler CH CIE MC TD FRS FBA FSA (10 September 1890 – 22 July 1976) was a British archaeologist and officer in the British Army...
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    archaeologist Sir Mortimer Wheeler. She came to public notice in 1954 when she shot her lover Anthony Vivian, 5th Baron Vivian. Wheeler was born in 1908...
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    archaeology". The next major figure in the development of archaeology was Mortimer Wheeler, whose highly disciplined approach to excavation and systematic coverage...
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  • Michael Mortimer Wheeler QC (8 January 1915 – 7 August 1992) was a British barrister. The son of archaeologists Mortimer and Tessa Wheeler, he attended...
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  • Bobby, or Rob) Wheeler may refer to: Sir Mortimer Wheeler (Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler, 1890–1976), archaeologist Robert E. Wheeler, United States Air...
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    The Wheeler–Kenyon method is a method of archaeological excavation. The technique originates from the work of Mortimer Wheeler and Tessa Wheeler at Verulamium...
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  • book editor Mortimer Wheeler (1890–1976), British archaeologist Mortimer Wilson (1876–1932), American composer of classical music Mortimer Zuckerman (born...
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    and Ernest Mackay. Further excavations were carried out in 1945 by Mortimer Wheeler and his trainee, Ahmad Hasan Dani and F. A. Khan. The last major series...
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    Robert Renwick Mortimer (born 23 May 1959) is an English comedian, author, television presenter, writer and actor. He is best known for his work with Vic...
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    origins in Mortimer Wheeler's vision of a centre for archaeological training in the United Kingdom, which he conceived in the 1920s. Wheeler and Tessa...
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    1944, a British archaeologist and army officer, Mortimer Wheeler took over as Director General. Wheeler served as Director General till 1948 and during...
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  • Indus Civilization, Sir Mortimer Wheeler (Cambridge University Press, 1953) pp. 76–77 The Indus Civilization, Sir Mortimer Wheeler (Cambridge University...
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  • Collingridge Wheeler, Lady Wheeler (formerly Norfolk; 1916–1990) was an Australian archaeologist who worked at Maiden Castle, Dorset with Mortimer Wheeler in the...
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    site of Sir Mortimer Wheeler's last major archaeological excavation in Britain, which he carried out over the summers of 1951 and 1952. Wheeler argued that...
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  • era, she remains best known as the wife and professional partner of Mortimer Wheeler. They collaborated on major excavations in Wales and England (including...
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  • abdomen by Mavis Wheeler (née Mabel Winifred Mary Wright, 1908–1970), the former wife of Horace de Vere Cole and of Sir Mortimer Wheeler, and a former mistress...
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    archaeologist Augustus Pitt Rivers. In the 1930s, archaeologist Mortimer Wheeler and Tessa Verney Wheeler undertook the first archaeological excavations at Maiden...
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  • member of the discussion panel was the renowned archaeologist Sir Mortimer Wheeler, who was voted TV personality of the year in 1954, providing the world...
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    Nodens at Lydney Park, the archaeologist Sir Mortimer Wheeler discovered details of the curse. As Wheeler consulted with J. R. R. Tolkien on the name of...
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    the capital, Pondicherry of the Indian territory of Puducherry. Sir Mortimer Wheeler 1945, and Jean-Marie Casal conducted archaeological excavations there...
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  • This argument was proposed by the mid-20th century archaeologist Mortimer Wheeler, who interpreted the presence of many unburied corpses found in the...
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  • Buried Treasure, which featured guests such as Kathleen Kenyon, Sir Mortimer Wheeler, and actress Noelle Middleton. He became Disney Professor of Archaeology...
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    excavated, but occasional excavations continued, such as the one led by Mortimer Wheeler, a new director-general of the ASI appointed in 1944, and including...
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  • multiple people Mortimer Wheeler (1890–1976), British archaeologist Nathaniel Wheeler (1820–1893), American businessman Nicholas Wheeler (born 1965), British...
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    possibly a "king-priest", but it appears to have been his successor, Sir Mortimer Wheeler, who was the first to use Priest-King. An alternative designation for...
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    their harmonious golden tone, which is due only in part to age." — Mortimer Wheeler, Five thousand years of Pakistan "Never in the history of the architecture...
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    civilization. The next major figure in the development of archaeology was Sir Mortimer Wheeler, whose highly disciplined approach to excavation and systematic coverage...
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  • Monmouthshire in Cardiff, where his lecturers included Mortimer Wheeler and Cyril Fox. Wheeler was also Keeper and then from 1923 Director of the National...
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  • 21: Benno Landsberger, German Assyriologist (d. 1968) September 10: Mortimer Wheeler, British archaeologist (d. 1976) August 2 - Charles Roach Smith, British...
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  • followed in the footsteps of notable stratigraphic archaeologists such as Mortimer Wheeler, without necessarily being a notable excavator himself. Harris's work...
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