Connie Richland, born in 1791 in Washington, England. Her adoptive father, Sir Lewis Richland, financed the early 19th Century British excavations in Egypt for the British Museum. Interested in archaeology, she worked along with her father until 1818 when she died during an expedition to the Valley of the Kings. A tunnel collapsed and buried her with three other workers. She was found and taught by Carlo Baldoni, her father's archaeologist. In the male-dominated world of archaeology, Richland made a name for herself at the beginning of the 20th Century.