# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerald-lankester-harding
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:02:00.809Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerald-lankester-harding"
name: "Gerald Lankester Harding"
slug: "gerald-lankester-harding"
description: "Gerald Lankester Harding CBE was a British archaeologist who was the director of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan from 1936 to 1956. His tenure spanned the period in which the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered and brought to public awareness. Without his efforts many of the scrolls might have disappeared into private collections never to be seen again."
tagline: "British archaeologist (1901-1979)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gerald_Lankester_Harding_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1901"
deathDate: "1979-02-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.258064516129032
  historical:           5.882614666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Lankester_Harding"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump