# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marc-waelkens
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:19:09.703Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marc-waelkens"
name: "Marc Waelkens"
slug: "marc-waelkens"
description: "Marc, Knight Waelkens was a professor emeritus of archaeology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. He was director of the excavation at the Pisidian city of Sagalassos in Turkey. The research project has become one of the biggest and most interdisciplinary excavations in the Mediterranean, where all aspects of the city and its territory are studied by means of a variety of modern research techniques."
tagline: "Belgian archaeologist"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1948-04-12"
deathDate: "2021-02-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.7
  momentum:             4.214285714285715
  historical:           5.673830666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Marc Waelkens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "مارك وايلكينس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Waelkens"
    title: "Marc Waelkens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Waelkens"
    title: "Marc Waelkens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Waelkens"
    title: "Marc Waelkens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Waelkens"
    title: "Marc Waelkens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2663136"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump