# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/caroline-l-ransom
# Generated: 2026-08-16T00:44:38.176Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/caroline-l-ransom"
name: "Caroline L. Ransom"
slug: "caroline-l-ransom"
description: "Caroline Ransom Williams was an Egyptologist and classical archaeologist. She was the first American woman to be professionally trained as an Egyptologist. She worked extensively with the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA) in New York and other major institutions with Egyptian collections, and published Studies in ancient furniture (1905), The Tomb of Perneb (1916), and The Decoration of the Tomb of Perneb: The Technique and the Color Conventions (1932), among others. During the Epigraphic Survey of the University of Chicago Oriental Institute's first season in Luxor, she helped to develop the \"Chicago House method\" for copying ancient Egyptian reliefs."
tagline: "American egyptologist and classical archaeologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Caroline_Ransom_1908_Yearbook_Bryn_Mawr_College.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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birthDate: "1872-02-24"
deathDate: "1952-02-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump