Giving Overdue Credit to Early Archaeologists' Wives | JSTOR Daily

Nobody makes it alone in life … A short read based on a journal article “They Also Dug! Archaeoiogists’ Wives and Their Stories” by Norma Dever published in Near Eastern Archaeology in 2004. A few lines about four women (Agatha Cristie, Ruth Albright, Sophia Schliemann, and Hilda Petrie) leaves you willing to find out more. Feel free to check the References section in Dever’s article. For the time being here a link to a research paper Publicising Petrie: Financing Fieldwork in British Mandate Palestine (1926–1938) by Rachael Thyrza Sparks.

And nobody raised the possibility of creating museums in the countries were archaeological excavations were actually taking place … Or, may be, I just don’t know if somebody did.

Sophia e Heinrich Schliemann, marriage in Athens, 1869/ Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons