Creative would fit. He was quite a chap - didn't he invent modern archaeology, for one, as well as being a major political figure?
(modern archeology = scientific process, digging trenches, making accurate records. previously it was just a case of digging holes randomly until you found something and then not knowing what to do with it)
(modern archeology = scientific process, digging trenches, making accurate records. previously it was just a case of digging holes randomly until you found something and then not knowing what to do with it)