WOOLLEY, Leonard R. Leonard R. Woolley, of Cromwell, a resident for over forty years, the husband of Blanche Guyette of Enfield, passed away peacefully in his sleep early on the morning of May 18, ...
Southern Adventist University’s School of Religion welcomes archaeologist James Fraser, PhD, to present “Leonard Woolley: Digging Up the Past in the Middle East” on Monday, November 17, at 7 p.m. in ...
Leonard Woolley waxing a skeleton for removal, in Ur (1929-1930) (courtesy of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology) After excavation, ancient artifacts embark on an ...
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Humanity's first museum: Legacy claim in ruins

In 1925, a team led by British archaeologist Leonard Woolley excavated a mysterious building site in the temple district of Ur, a southern Iraqi city considered the birthplace of ancient Mesopotamian ...
Introductory -- The scope of archaeology -- Modern man -- Why does anyone dig? -- The "Antioch chalice" -- The tale of a potsherd -- What digging has done -- How mounds grow -- Nature as moundmaker -- ...
The beginnings -- The early history of Sumer -- The period of civil wars -- Sumerian society -- The third dynasty of UR -- Isin and Larsa -- The claim of Sumer https ...
"Reprinted ... from the Museum journal, Museum of the University of Pennsylvania, March, 1929"--P. 437. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball ...