Real Life Archaeologists In Edward Ware Thrillers At War:
In one of my books the excavations at Carchemish that ended prematurely in 1914 and were not resumed until after the Great War play a big role. The archaeologist here was Leonard Woolley and his assistant, T. E. Lawrence or later Lawrence of Arabia.
Another real life archaeologist I have used in a novel called Book of the Dead is of course Howard Carter of King Tut fame. He has interested me since I saw the King Tut tomb artifacts. Still another would be Sir Arthur Evans who excavated the Palace of Knossos on Crete. I have a book called Minotaur. And one of the first was Heinrich Schliemann who dug at Troy. I remember entering the Athens Museum and seeing the Mask of Agamemnon at the entrance.
As far as archaeologists I have actually met I could name members of the Bryn Mawr archaeology department. Professor Kyle Phillips had a dig in Etruria. Graduate students participated, but I was not one of them. Miss Mabel Lang did not dig up artifacts but she studied epigraphy. She also did a lot of translation and worked with Chadwick and Ventris on the decipherment of Linear B. She also wrote books. At a classics colloquia I once met the famous translator Richmond Lattimore. He may not have been an archaeologist but boy did he come close! He worked with them all the time, and they influenced his translations.
Another Bryn Mawr archaeologist whom I never met was Emily Vermeule who wrote Greece in the Bronze Age, one of my textbooks. 
