History Main / AdventurerArchaeologist

* In TabletopGame/RocketAge most members of the ICIC count. The Ahnenerbe also have Archaeologists on Mars plus various freebooters and scientists also qualify.

* {{Nethack}} has an Archaeologist class that starts with a whip and fedora.

* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft}}'':

* Gertrude Bell, a peer and a mentor to T E Lawrence, was a famous spy and diplomat to the Middle East during and after World War One, helped reshape the region after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, founded the Iraqi Archaeological Museum ([[WhyWeCantHaveNiceThings which was sadly extensively looted(by an inside job) during the 2003 invasion]]) and is still remembered with fondness among the people of the region, no small accomplishment for both a foreigner and a woman.

* Pyramid King Brandon, one of the Frontier Brains from ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}; exploring ancient ruins has certainly paid off for him, as he managed to tame [[OlympusMons Regirock, Regice, and Registeel]], making him the most powerful Frontier Brain (and indeed, one of the most powerful trainers in the world). Ash lost to him ''twice'' before winning on the third attempt with his four best and oldest Pokémon.

* IndianaJones re-popularized it in recent years, also the movies are basically {{Genre Throwback}}s.
** This is probably why [[http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2006/10/10bryan.html he was denied tenure]].
** Although what we see is only a very small portion of what he actually does and certain supplemental materials make it clear that he does spend a lot of time teaching, as well as identifying and cataloging artifacts for museums as well as the college he works for.

** What little we see of his students in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'' ''does'' indicate that they are rather desensitized to his adventuring habit, to the extent that they see him sliding under their table in the library ''on a motorcycle'' as an opportunity to ask a question about the homework and [[CasualDangerDialog not something unusual in the slightest.]]

* Ruby Crecent from ''[[SixSixSixSatan 666 Satan]]'' (AKA ''O-Parts Hunter'') is a young archeologist who meets the main character when looking for her father.

** Daniel's status as this (as well as [[TookALevelInBadass the levels in badass he's taken]]) are lampshaded in one episode when one of the soldiers on the team that SG-1 will be guarding mentions [[SarcasmMode how much safer he feels knowing that an archaeologist has his back]]. Daniel responds by holding up a knife and asking which end he's supposed to put the bullets in.

** The Greeks tend to think the last and still want to get the Marbles back. The Acropolis museum even has holes in which the Marbles should go with something written about how the Marbles are, unfortunately, still in the British museum.
** The British on the other hand argue firstly that the Marbles are of value to all mankind, and so should be housed in a genuinely global city, which London is and Athens isn't, and that the Greeks were doing a shoddy job of keeping them before Elgin rescued them.

By the time UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne began, most of the participants in it- like Indiana Jones- tended to be properly trained archeologists who tried to handle things properly and also tried to keep their military involvement separate from their archeology (RalphBagnold for instance was an archeologist who signed up for the British military and used his experience and innovations to help form the Desert Rats). But it wasn't uncommon for archeological expeditions to be run like military expeditions (particularly during the war years). On occasion, these forces and their affiliated armed forces and intelligence agencies might even clash, with people getting killed and some priceless finds being either damaged or destroyed. Sometimes just to deny them to the enemy.

To be fair, Howard Carter's expedition to retrieve Tutankhamun's body and treasures was sensational. Finding the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army Terracotta Army of Qin Shi Huang]] would have been a glorious experience, as well. So while there isn't quite the same level of swashbuckling that Indy experienced, if you're lucky, hitting the jackpot can still be one hell of an adrenaline rush.

It also didn't help that the swashbucklng in fiction [[RealityIsUnrealistic had a small kernal of truth.]] Militarized archeology has an uncomfortably long history. Around the time it was coming into its own as a respectable field, the world was hit by [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne one]] [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo major conflict]] [[UsefulNotes/ColdWar after another]], each of which saw archeology politicized and militarized to a dangerous degree. For reasons ranging from [[ArchaeologicalArmsRace trying to dig up the remnants of heavily mythologized "advanced civilizations" for technological or ideological benefit]] or [[EspionageTropes as a neat way to do spying]], preservation and cataloging of the past often had to negotiate minefields of militarized looting, diplomatic relations, and warring superpowers and local factions.

It also didn't help that the swashbucklng in fiction [[RealityIsUnrealistic had a small kernal of truth.]] Militarized archeology has an uncomfortably long history. Around the time it was coming into its' own as a respectable field, the world was hit by [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne one]] [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo major conflict]] [[UsefulNotes/ColdWar after another]], each of which saw archeology politicized and militarized to a dangerous degree. For reasons ranging from [[ArchaeologicalArmsRace trying to dig up the remnants of heavily mythologized "advanced civilizations" for technological or ideological benefit]] or [[EspionageTropes as a neat way to do spying]], preservation and cataloging of the past often had to negotiate minefields of militarized looting, diplomatic relations, and warring superpowers and local factions.

* This was the SecretIdentity of the [[TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] {{Hawkman}}, who has returned as the current Hawkman.

* ''{{Warcraft}}'':

->''"You would use a bulldozer to find a china cup."''
-->-- '''Rene Belloq''', ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''

* Professor Alba of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky'' starts out as a subversion. As Estelle and Joshua encounter him in numerous ruins across the world, he is the typical absent-minded academic, possessing no offensive power of his own and needing to be kept safe on escort missions. [[spoiler: Then, at the ''very'' end of First Chapter, he is revealed to be the BigBad of the series.]]

** The WackyWaysideTribe subtrope was also common place since many of the dinosaur sites in the western USA where located in barely charted InjunCountry. It was later taken to the next level when Andrews decided to look for fossils in 1920s Mongolia. When {{Ungern-Sternberg}} was in charge. When the whole of central and east Asia was in a civil war and/or dominated by warlords. ''Even though no fossil had been found in Mongolia before''. And guess what, he was successful, and uncovered one of the world's greatest dinosaur fossil beds, that of the Gobi Desert.[[note]]His original plan was to find remains of prehistoric men not dinosaurs, but, AllIsWellThatEndsWell, right?[[/note]]

* Professor Series/BerniceSummerfield, in the Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse.

* Professor Lemeza Kosugi from ''VideoGame/{{La-Mulana}}''. He has the advantage of being trained by his {{ninja}} grandfather, because "ninja infiltration techniques aid in investigating ancient ruins." His father, Shawn, also fits the bill, and seems to be even less concerned about blowing up ancient relics in his way than Lemeza is.

%%* The Thief from Dan Hipp's ''[[http://www.thethiefisdead.blogspot.com Gyakushu]]'' is a great example of the trope.
%%* The Diggers sisters in Fred Perry's ''ComicBook/GoldDigger''.
%%* This was the SecretIdentity of the [[TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] {{Hawkman}}, who has returned as the current Hawkman.