In 1930 a local amateur archeologist did a small amount of digging at the Bogan Site.
Many professional and amateur archeologists are active here.
A tourist board spokesman said the tours should draw a variety of customers, from amateur archeologists to forensic scientists.
Over the years, many profession and amateur archeologists have claimed to find the city but most professionals remain skeptical that it ever existed.
It was built in the last century by an Austrian doctor who was also an amateur archeologist.
Within days, the soldiers were transformed from maintenance workers into amateur archeologists, scraping away layers of dirt.
I found only one, in Auxerre, and wrote a letter introducing myself as an amateur archeologist.
The amateur archeologist began an excavation in 1927 and later built a museum over the site.
An amateur archeologist was soon hired to serve as curator and the museum opened in the former library building on 8 September 1968.
The site was discovered and tested by an amateur archeologist in 1971.