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Nancy Dupree

1927 - 2017

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Nancy Hatch Dupree (Pashto: نانسي دوپري, romanized: Nansi dupri; October 3, 1927 – September 10, 2017) was an American historian whose work primarily focused on the history of modern Afghanistan. She was the director of the Afghanistan Center at Kabul University and author of five books that she compiled while studying the history of Afghanistan from 1962 until the late 1970s, writing about tourism and history of Bamyan, Kabul, Kandahar, Herat, Mazar-i-Sharif and so on. She was fondly called the "grandmother of Afghanistan", having spent much of her life there or with Afghans abroad. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nancy Dupree is the 125th most popular archaeologist (up from 146th in 2019), the 9,017th most popular biography from United States (up from 11,973rd in 2019) and the 15th most popular American Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Nancy Dupree ranks 125 out of 151. Before her are Michael D. Coe, Julio C. Tello, James Mellaart, Charles Dawson, Ekrem Akurgal, and Ivan Borkovský. After her are Klaus Schmidt, John Beazley, Karel Absolon, Muhibbe Darga, Grahame Clark, and Boris Piotrovsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Nancy Dupree ranks 381. Before her are Ermes Muccinelli, Frank Sedgman, McLean Stevenson, David Dinkins, Dorothy Manley, and Heini Walter. After her are Gerard Cieślik, Gábor Benedek, Vince Boryla, Willy De Clercq, Dell Hymes, and Peter Mark Richman. Among people deceased in 2017, Nancy Dupree ranks 459. Before her are Paul Falk, Françoise Héritier, Rodrigo Valdez, Viktor Chanov, Aníbal Ruiz, and Lothar Thoms. After her are Laurynas Stankevičius, Habib Thiam, Lil Peep, Antonio Spallino, Della Reese, and Józef Grudzień.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Nancy Dupree ranks 9,019 out of 20,380. Before her are David Twohy (1955), Melville Fuller (1833), Chris Owen (1980), Malcolm Bilson (1935), Ginni Rometty (1957), and Hope Davis (1964). After her are Guy Siner (1947), Lili Taylor (1967), Chita Rivera (1933), Clayton Anderson (1959), Ellsworth Vines (1911), and Sally Mann (1951).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United States

Among archaeologists born in United States, Nancy Dupree ranks 15. Before her are Edward Robinson (1794), Robert T. Bakker (1945), Stith Thompson (1885), Lewis Binford (1932), Carl Blegen (1887), and Michael D. Coe (1929). After her are J. P. Mallory (1945), Robert John Braidwood (1907), and William G. Dever (1933).

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