Category
page 1Explorers of Arabia
Ibn Battuta
14th century Muslim Maghrebi scholar and explorer
Richard Francis Burton
British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar (1821–1890)
Gertrude Bell
British traveller, writer, mountaineer, politician, archaeologist and spy (1868–1926)
Johann Ludwig Burckhardt
Swiss traveller and writer (1784-1817)
Carsten Niebuhr
German mathematician, botanist, cartographer and explorer in Danish service (1733–1815)
Freya Madeline Stark
British travel writer (1893-1993)
Wilfred Thesiger
British explorer, military officer, writer and botanical collector (1910-2003)
Christiaan Snouck
Dutch orientalist (1857–1936)
St John Philby
English Arabist, explorer, writer, and British colonial office intelligence officer (1885–1960)
Georg August Wallin
Finnish orientalist (1811–1852)
Ulrich Jasper Seetzen
German physician, naturalist, explorer and orientalist (1767-1811)
Charles Montagu Doughty
British poet (1843-1926)
Androsthenes of Thasos
admiral of Alexander the Great
Eduard Glaser
Austrian archaeologist (1855–1908)
Joseph Halévy
French Orientalist (1827–1917)
William Gifford Palgrave
British Arabic scholar (1826–1888)
Anne Blunt
British musician and horse breeder (1837–1917)
Bertram Thomas
Civil servant and explorer (1892–1950)
James Theodore Bent
British archaeologist (1852-1897)
Emil Riebeck
German explorer and scientist (1853–1885)
William Shakespear
English civil servant and explorer (1878-1915)
Hannu
ancient Egyptian explorer

Julius Euting
German librarian (1839–1913)
Louis du Couret
French born explorer, military officer, and writer
Mabel Bent
Anglo-Irish explorer, excavator, writer and photographer (1847-1929)
Archias of Pella
Macedonian naval officer under Alexander the Great
Carl Rathjens
German explorer (1887-1966)
Robert Ernest Cheesman
British explorer (1878–1962)
Hermann von Wissmann
German-Austrian explorer of Arabia (1885–1979)
Wendell Phillips
American archaeologist (1921-1975)