David Woodley Packard

He has made significant contribution to the study of the language and the sign repertory of the Minoan Linear A script.

[2] Packard was responsible for acquiring, with David and Lucile Packard Foundation funds, the former Mount Pony facility for the Library of Congress in 1997; it has opened as the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center.

He also supports film preservation through the Packard Humanities Institute.

In 2000, Packard donated USD 5 million to fund an emergency excavation of the Zeugma archeological site, after reading about it in The New York Times, allowing archeologists to preserve ancient mosaics that would otherwise be inundated by the Birecik Dam.

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