# People

> Researchers, witnesses, makers and the missing: everyone the mysteries' records name, with what they did in each.

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People

# 625 people in 95 mysteries

Researchers, witnesses, makers and the missing: everyone the mysteries' records name, with what they did in each.

All mysteries

[All mysteries](https://mysteriesdept.com/people)[1908 Tunguska event](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=tunguska-event)[1979 Vela incident](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=vela-incident)[1I/'Oumuamua](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=oumuamua)[2004 Nimitz encounter and the Navy videos](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=nimitz-encounter)[Amber Room](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=amber-room)[America's missing scientists, 2021–2026](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=missing-scientists)[Antikythera Mechanism](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=antikythera-mechanism)[Archimedes Palimpsest](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=archimedes-palimpsest)[Ball lightning](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=ball-lightning)[Beale ciphers](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=beale-ciphers)[Bermuda Triangle](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=bermuda-triangle)[Bloop and NOAA's unexplained ocean sounds](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=noaa-ocean-sounds)[Carnac alignments](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=carnac-alignments)[Cascajal block and Isthmian writing](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=cascajal-block)[Cicada 3301](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=cicada-3301)[Copiale cipher](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=copiale-cipher)[Cretan Hieroglyphic](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=cretan-hieroglyphic)[Cypro-Minoan](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=cypro-minoan)[Dead Sea Scrolls: dating, scribes and provenance](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=dead-sea-scrolls-dating)[Dhofari script](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=dhofari-script)[Disappearance of Amelia Earhart](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=amelia-earhart)[Dorabella cipher](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=dorabella-cipher)[Dyatlov Pass incident](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=dyatlov-pass)[Earth flyby anomaly](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=flyby-anomaly)[Easter Island moai](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=easter-island-moai)[Etruscan: the readable language that cannot be fully translated](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=etruscan-language)[Eye of the Sahara and Atlantis](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=eye-of-the-sahara)[Fast radio bursts and the origin of the one-off bursts](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=fast-radio-bursts)[Flor de la Mar](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=flor-de-la-mar)[Franklin expedition (HMS Erebus and HMS Terror)](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=franklin-expedition)[Gallo-Roman dodecahedra](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=roman-dodecahedra)[Great Sphinx of Giza](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=great-sphinx)[Great houses of Chaco Canyon](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=chaco-canyon)[Gunung Padang](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=gunung-padang)[Göbekli Tepe](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=gobekli-tepe)[HD 139139, the "Random Transiter"](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=hd-139139-random-transiter)[Hattic, Kassite and the half-read languages of the cuneiform archives](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=hattic-kassite-lost-languages)[Herculaneum Papyri and the Vesuvius Challenge](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=herculaneum-papyri)[Hessdalen lights](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=hessdalen-lights)[Hijacking of Northwest 305 (D. B. Cooper)](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=db-cooper)[Homo floresiensis, the origin of the Flores "hobbits"](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=homo-floresiensis)[Homo naledi and the Rising Star burial claims](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=homo-naledi-burials)[How the Great Pyramid was built](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=great-pyramid)[Hurrian songs of Ugarit](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=hurrian-songs)[Iberian language and Palaeohispanic scripts](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=iberian-language)[Indus script](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=indus-script)[Inka khipus: the knotted-cord records](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=khipu)[Kensington Runestone](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=kensington-runestone)[Kryptos](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=kryptos)[Late Bronze Age collapse](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=bronze-age-collapse)[Linear A](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=linear-a)[Loch Ness](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=loch-ness)[Lost Colony of Roanoke](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=lost-colony-roanoke)[Lost Dutchman's gold mine](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=lost-dutchman-mine)[Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=mh370)[Marfa lights](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=marfa-lights)[Mars methane puzzle](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=mars-methane)[Mary Celeste](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=mary-celeste)[Meroitic](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=meroitic)[Monte Sierpe, the "Band of Holes"](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=monte-sierpe-band-of-holes)[Nazca Lines](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=nazca-lines)[Nebra Sky Disc](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=nebra-sky-disc)[Oak Island money pit](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=oak-island)[Patterson-Gimlin film](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=patterson-gimlin-film)[Phaistos Disc](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=phaistos-disc)[Phoenix Lights, 13 March 1997](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=phoenix-lights)[Phosphine in the clouds of Venus](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=venus-phosphine)[Pictish symbol stones](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=pictish-symbols)[Proto-Elamite and Linear Elamite](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=proto-elamite)[Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=proto-sinaitic)[Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=proto-cuneiform)[Puma Punku and Tiwanaku](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=puma-punku)[Rendlesham Forest, December 1980](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=rendlesham-forest)[Ricky McCormick's notes](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=ricky-mccormick-notes)[Rohonc Codex](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=rohonc-codex)[Rongorongo](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=rongorongo)[Roswell, 1947](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=roswell)[San José galleon](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=san-jose-galleon)[Sanxingdui and its sacrificial pits](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=sanxingdui)[Shroud of Turin](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=shroud-of-turin)[Shugborough inscription](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=shugborough-inscription)[Skinwalker Ranch](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=skinwalker-ranch)[Somerton Man (Tamam Shud)](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=somerton-man)[Stonehenge](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=stonehenge)[Stradivari "secret"](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=stradivari-secret)[Tabby's star (KIC 8462852)](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=tabbys-star)[Tarim Basin mummies (Xiaohe)](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=tarim-mummies)[US government UAP disclosures](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=uap-us-government)[UVB-76, "the Buzzer"](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=uvb-76-buzzer)[Unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=unread-cuneiform)[White Shaman Mural](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=white-shaman-mural)[Who were the Denisovans? The Harbin "Dragon Man" cranium](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=denisovan-identity)[Wow! signal](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=wow-signal)[Younger Dryas impact hypothesis](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=younger-dryas-impact)[Zodiac ciphers](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?mystery=zodiac-ciphers)

Any role

[Any role](https://mysteriesdept.com/people)[Archaeologist](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?role=archaeologist)[Linguist](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?role=linguist)[Assyriologist](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?role=assyriologist)[Author](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?role=author)[Co-author](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?role=co-author)[Geologist](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?role=geologist)[Astronomer](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?role=astronomer)[Director](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?role=director)[Physicist](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?role=physicist)[Epigrapher](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?role=epigrapher)[Historian](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?role=historian)[Egyptologist](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?role=egyptologist)[Excavator](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?role=excavator)[Epigraphist](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?role=epigraphist)

Any period

[Any period](https://mysteriesdept.com/people)[Before 1800](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?period=before-1800)[1800s](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?period=1800s)[1900–1949](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?period=1900-1949)[1950–1999](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?period=1950-1999)[Since 2000](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?period=2000s)

[With a portrait](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?image=1)

[All](https://mysteriesdept.com/people)[A](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?letter=A)[B](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?letter=B)[C](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?letter=C)[D](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?letter=D)[E](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?letter=E)[F](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?letter=F)[G](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?letter=G)[H](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?letter=H)[I](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?letter=I)[J](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?letter=J)[K](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?letter=K)[L](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?letter=L)[M](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?letter=M)[N](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?letter=N)[O](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?letter=O)[P](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?letter=P)[Q](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?letter=Q)[R](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?letter=R)[S](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?letter=S)[T](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?letter=T)[U](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?letter=U)[V](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?letter=V)[W](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?letter=W)X[Y](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?letter=Y)[Z](https://mysteriesdept.com/people?letter=Z)#

## A 56 on this page

[AJ

**A. J. Timothy Jull** Arizona AMS laboratory; co-author of the 1989, 2010 and 2026 papers

Shroud of Turin

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/shroud-of-turin/people/FIG0CWY2CCW649T/a-j-timothy-jull)[AM

**Abel Méndez** Planetary Habitability Laboratory, UPR Arecibo; leads the Arecibo Wow! project

Wow! signal

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/wow-signal/people/FIG0CXZ4J707PQ3/abel-mendez)[AQ

**Abigail Quandt** Conservator who disbound and conserved the book

Archimedes Palimpsest

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/archimedes-palimpsest/people/FIG0CT7N1644DH7/abigail-quandt)[

**Abraham (Avi) Loeb** Harvard astrophysicist; proposed the lightsail reading · born 1962

1I/'Oumuamua

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oumuamua/people/FIG0CSKBRJJ6DGG/abraham-avi-loeb)[AB

**Adam Brumm** Archaeologist, Griffith University; So'a Basin dating

Homo floresiensis, the origin of the Flores "hobbits"

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/homo-floresiensis/people/FIG0CZNMEX02QN9/adam-brumm)[AF

**Adam Falkenstein** Assyriologist; first editor of the Uruk archaic tablets (ATU 1, 1936) · 1906–1966

Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/people/FIG0DEDPBBMJ2FB/adam-falkenstein)[AR

**Adolph Ruth** Searcher whose death made the story national

Lost Dutchman's gold mine

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-dutchman-mine/people/FIG0D0G07ME22HG/adolph-ruth)[AS

**Adrian Shine** Leader of the Loch Ness Project; organised Operation Deepscan

Loch Ness

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/loch-ness/people/FIG0CRFX65W526Q/adrian-shine)[

**Afonso de Albuquerque** Governor of Portuguese India; commanded the ship at her loss

Flor de la Mar

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/flor-de-la-mar/people/FIG0D2BHG4M6H39/afonso-de-albuquerque)[

**Agustín Fuentes** Anthropologist, Princeton; co-author of the burial and meaning-making papers · born 1966

Homo naledi and the Rising Star burial claims

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/homo-naledi-burials/people/FIG0D38X3RP7D2Y/agustin-fuentes)[AA

**Ahmad Al-Jallad** Epigrapher (Ohio State); 2025 decipherment; OCIANA director

Dhofari script

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/dhofari-script/people/FIG0D7QBCRC1CG9/ahmad-al-jallad)[AB

**Alan Berman** Director of the Naval Research Laboratory in 1979

1979 Vela incident

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vela-incident/people/FIG0CW4WQWA2DDM/alan-berman)[AG

**Alan Gardiner** Egyptologist who read b'lt and explained the script as acrophonic · 1879–1963

Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/people/FIG0DEDQ9NR2M42/alan-gardiner)[AP

**Alan P. Jackson** Proposed the nitrogen-ice reading

1I/'Oumuamua

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oumuamua/people/FIG0CSKBSHT44T2/alan-p-jackson)[AG

**Albert G. Richardson** First mate

Mary Celeste

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/people/FIG0D00ZPXR1AH0/albert-g-richardson)[AD

**Alex Dietrich** Pilot of the second F/A-18F · born 1979

2004 Nimitz encounter and the Navy videos

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/nimitz-encounter/people/FIG0D1SBK9E5TGS/alex-dietrich)[AB

**Alexander Brusov** Led the 1945 Soviet investigation; dated the destruction to 9 to 11 April 1945 · 1885–1966

Amber Room

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amber-room/people/FIG0D4N2PCG25KZ/alexander-brusov)[AG

**Alexander G. Keul** Researcher matching ball-lightning reports with lightning networks

Ball lightning

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/ball-lightning/people/FIG0D40A2J667H6/alexander-g-keul)[AJ

**Alexander Jones** Historian of astronomy; inscriptions and epoch dates

Antikythera Mechanism

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/antikythera-mechanism/people/FIG0D3FQ2C631E9/alexander-jones)[AM

**Alexander M. Puzrin** Geotechnical engineer, ETH Zurich; co-author of the 2021 model

Dyatlov Pass incident

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/dyatlov-pass/people/FIG0D79DE0A3WAS/alexander-m-puzrin)[AT

**Alexander Thom** Engineer and surveyor of megalithic sites · 1894–1985

Carnac alignments

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/carnac-alignments/people/FIG0D69T8JT2DA9/alexander-thom)[AV

**Alexei Vranich** Archaeologist; excavator of Puma Punku

Puma Punku and Tiwanaku

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/puma-punku/people/FIG0D69YCX61VCQ/alexei-vranich)[AR

**Alfred Rohde** Director of the Königsberg Castle museum; displayed the room

Amber Room

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amber-room/people/FIG0D4N2NWW0CKG/alfred-rohde)[AA

**Ali Akbar** Archaeologist; co-author of the 2023 paper; leads the 2025 study and restoration team

Gunung Padang

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/gunung-padang/people/FIG0D32CCJA7JF4/ali-akbar)[AB

**Alice B. Kehoe** Anthropologist; advocate of authenticity

Kensington Runestone

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/kensington-runestone/people/FIG0CT1HRD67DY1/alice-b-kehoe)[AW

**Allen West** Co-author of the 2007 paper and most later proponent papers

Younger Dryas impact hypothesis

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/younger-dryas-impact/people/FIG0D51X2780VPG/allen-west)[A

**Amanirenas** Kandake (queen) of Kush, late 1st century BC; named on the Hamadab stela

Meroitic

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/meroitic/people/FIG0CVTZXY81PNB/amanirenas)[

**Amelia Earhart** Pilot

Disappearance of Amelia Earhart

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/people/FIG0CYPMH6M5HS0/amelia-earhart)[AK

**Anatoly Kuchumov** Catherine Palace curator; led the Soviet search

Amber Room

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amber-room/people/FIG0D4N2P4P0F04/anatoly-kuchumov)[AS

**Andreas Schlüter** Designer of the room

Amber Room

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amber-room/people/FIG0D4N2NN25WZ1/andreas-schluter)[

**Andreas Önnerfors** Historian of secret societies; the Oculists and Freemasonry · born 1971

Copiale cipher

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/copiale-cipher/people/FIG0CYVFFPG3F03/andreas-onnerfors)[AK

**Andrei Kuryakov** Deputy head, Prosecutor General's directorate for the Ural Federal District; announced the 2020 finding

Dyatlov Pass incident

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/dyatlov-pass/people/FIG0D79DDGP0Z4E/andrei-kuryakov)[AV

**Andrew Vanderburg** Co-author; developer of the K2SFF light curves

HD 139139, the "Random Transiter"

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hd-139139-random-transiter/people/FIG0D79RXXR6BPA/andrew-vanderburg)[

**Ankhhaf** Vizier, director of Ro-She Khufu

How the Great Pyramid was built

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/great-pyramid/people/FIG0CSMNQ3G15J0/ankhhaf)[AM

**Anna Margherita Jasink** Aegean scholar (Florence); seal classification and the DBAS-CHS database

Cretan Hieroglyphic

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/people/FIG0DEDRHWGB4SN/anna-margherita-jasink)[AP

**Anna Paulina Luna** Chair, House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets

US government UAP disclosures

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/uap-us-government/people/FIG0CXDNCX21NNZ/anna-paulina-luna)[AS

**Anna Sofaer** Recorded the Sun Dagger; founder of the Solstice Project

Great houses of Chaco Canyon

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/people/FIG0D9KTEW63SZ0/anna-sofaer)[AD

**Anne Draffkorn Kilmer** Assyriologist at Berkeley who published CBS 10996 (1960), synthesised the Babylonian theory texts (1971) and read h.6 as dyads with repetiti

Hurrian songs of Ugarit

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/people/FIG0DEDPD94MHD1/anne-draffkorn-kilmer)[AM

**Anne MacGregor** Documentary maker; 2007 analysis

Mary Celeste

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/people/FIG0D00ZRME1ETJ/anne-macgregor)[AA

**Anthony Aveni** Astronomer and anthropologist, Colgate University; led the 1980s survey · born 1938

Nazca Lines

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/nazca-lines/people/FIG0CT6X8P612PR/anthony-aveni)[AC

**Anthony Clarke** Geochronologist, Curtin University; lead author of the Altar Stone study

Stonehenge

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/stonehenge/people/FIG0CRWP8GG70YD/anthony-clarke)[AL

**Anthony Loke** Malaysian Minister of Transport

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mh370/people/FIG0CWY703E750S/anthony-loke)[AV

**Anthony Vaughan** Settler; first digger by tradition

Oak Island money pit

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oak-island/people/FIG0D52WVSR0YX8/anthony-vaughan)[AM

**Antonin Morlet** Vichy physician and amateur prehistorian who leased the field in 1925, excavated until 1936, published the finds as a Neolithic station with

](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/FIG0DEDMDFK4B9Y/antonin-morlet)[AP

**Antonio Paris** Proposed the comet hypothesis

Wow! signal

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/wow-signal/people/FIG0CXZ4HZ65CYQ/antonio-paris)[AS

**Antonio Stradivari** Violin maker, Cremona

Stradivari "secret"

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/stradivari-secret/people/FIG0CQAGJNR0TZN/antonio-stradivari)[AK

**Artemis Karnava** Aegean epigraphist; 2000 thesis on the script's function and decipherment prospects

Cretan Hieroglyphic

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/people/FIG0DEDRN1NZGC1/artemis-karnava)[

**Arthur Conan Doyle** Author of the 1884 story · 1859–1930

Mary Celeste

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/people/FIG0D00ZR4T1CNB/arthur-conan-doyle)[AE

**Arthur Evans** Excavator of Knossos; named and first catalogued the script · 1851–1941

Cretan Hieroglyphic

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/people/FIG0DEDQZ6Z8KN2/arthur-evans)[

**Arthur Evans** Published the disc in Scripta Minoa · 1891–1961

Phaistos Disc

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/phaistos-disc/people/FIG0D1GG38R1B4Z/arthur-evans)[

**Arthur Evans** Excavator of Knossos; named Linear A · 1891–1961

Linear A

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/linear-a/people/FIG0CQHK1G62MBP/arthur-evans)[AB

**Ary Boender** Dutch shortwave monitor; recorded the station from 1982

UVB-76, "the Buzzer"

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/uvb-76-buzzer/people/FIG0CR2JNQW24FG/ary-boender)[AK

**Ashok Khosla** Independent researcher; Khipu Field Guide

Inka khipus: the knotted-cord records

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/khipu/people/FIG0D4V7WY011HK/ashok-khosla)[AP

**Asko Parpola** Indologist; corpus editor and Dravidian hypothesis · born 1972

Indus script

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/indus-script/people/FIG0CWY3BMW6KRV/asko-parpola)[AB

**Audrey Blanchard** Archaeologist, Archeodunum and Nantes; director of the Le Plasker excavation

Carnac alignments

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/carnac-alignments/people/FIG0D69T8367FZM/audrey-blanchard)[AM

**Auguste Mariette** Excavator of the Valley Temple and the Isis temple

Great Sphinx of Giza

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/great-sphinx/people/FIG0CTWS4E87VZ4/auguste-mariette)

## B 4 on this page

[BH

**Bedřich Hrozný** Czech orientalist who showed in 1915 that Hittite is Indo-European · 1879–1952

Hattic, Kassite and the half-read languages of the cuneiform archives

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hattic-kassite-lost-languages/people/FIG0DEDS0E2NZ5Y/bedrich-hrozny)[BL

**Benedek Láng** Historian; author of the 2010 review and the 2021 book

Rohonc Codex

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**Benjamin Sass** Epigrapher; author of the 1988 corpus, who later moved the alphabet's date down to c. 1300 BC

Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet

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**Benjamin Spooner Briggs** Master

Mary Celeste

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