Leyland Hugh Sackett FSA (13 August 1928 – 12 April 2020) was an archeologist credited with being among the discoverers of the Palaikastro Kouros.
[1] As an archeologist, Sackett co-directed excavations at Lefkandi (Mervyn Popham was the other co-director) and worked at Minoan Palaikastro and Roman Knossos in Crete.
[5] He taught classics and Greek archeology at the Groton School in Massachusetts for more than 60 years.
[3] Beginning in 1968 and until at least 2006, he was released from duties at Groton in the spring term in order to pursue his archeological work in Greece.
[1] Sackett received the Gold Medal of the Archaeological Institute of America.