Cannot build Archaeologist, first one disappeared.

[Mikessnow]

I noticed he had no charges so I thought that's good but when I excavated 3 sites he disappeared.

[Mikessnow]

Just noticed I'm able to build one in another city that has a museum, is it one per?

[Yogi-Donnie]

You can only build Archaeologist and use their charges if you have enough room in your museums for the artifacts.

[tempest.of.emptiness]

Archaeologists don't have charges. Instead, they can recover artifacts until the museum in their home city is full, at which point they disappear. Typically this is three artifacts per archaeologist, although it is possible to sell artifacts to other civs and so excavate more artifacts with the same archaeologist - if increasing your rivals' tourism output is something you were willing to do.

I'm not sure why they chose to implement archaeologists in this way. It seems oddly inconsistent to me. Giving them three charges would have made more sense.

[Mikessnow]

Thanks for replies.

[Dray Prescot]

They do not want you to be able to build Archaeologists at high production cities for low production cities. So you can NOT move items around from and to Museums until the Museums are full and the Archaelogists for those Museums have been used up.

[Mikessnow]

Originally posted by Dray Prescot:

They do not want you to be able to build Archaeologists at high production cities for low production cities. So you can NOT move items around from and to Museums until the Museums are full and the Archaelogists for those Museums have been used up.

Yeah, I realised after my last comment yesterday, makes sense. :)