Taw Sein Ko CIE ISO (Burmese: တော်စိန်ခို; Chinese: 杜成誥[1]; pinyin: Dù Chénggào; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tō͘ Sêng-kò; 7 December 1864 – 29 May 1930) was Burma's first recorded archaeologist.

He spent over 32 years in various government services, and ended his career in 1919 as the Superintendent of the Archaeological Survey of Burma.

Taw married to the daughter of Tan Htun (who died in October 1910), a merchant in Rangoon.

[6] Taw graduated from Rangoon College in 1881 and read law at the Inner Temple, Inns of Court in 1892.

[8] He was an advocate for modernising Burma's medical education system, and unsuccessfully lobbied for incorporating indigenous treatments and practices into school curriculum.

[7] That year, after completing his first archaeological tour of Mon areas, he published his findings where he advocated for the preservation of the Mon language through conservation of manuscripts and relics at various museums in Burma (Bernard Free Library and Phayre Museum) and England.

[7] During the 1899–1900 Boxer uprising, he served as a Warden of the Frontier Areas, and helped to establish an Anglo-Chinese School.