biography
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Woolley, Sir (Charles) Leonard
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| lived:
| (1880–1960)
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| biography:
| Archaeologist, born in London, UK. He studied at Oxford, and carried out excavations at Carchemish, al-Ubaid, and Tell el-Amarna. He subsequently directed the important excavations (1922–34) at Ur in Mesopotamia, revealing in 1926 spectacular discoveries of gold and lapis lazuli in the royal tombs. He was knighted in 1935, and wrote several popular accounts of his work, notably Digging Up the Past (1930). |
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