Howard Crosby Butler

Howard Crosby Butler (March 7, 1872 Croton Falls, New York – August 13, 1922 Neuilly) was an American archaeologist.

[2] Turkey's unsolicited request that he oversee the excavation of Sardis represented a rare distinction for an American and a Christian.

[4] Most of the resulting finds kept in the excavation house perished in the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–22, thwarting the publication of projected volumes on pottery, lamps, bronze and stone objects, ivories, bones and glass.

He was admitted to the American Hospital of Paris in Neuilly on August 13 and died that night.

[1][3] He wrote many articles for archaeological journals and notable books on Scotland's Ruined Abbeys (1900) and The Story of Athens (1902).