WOOLLEY, SIR CHARLES LEONARD°
- WOOLLEY, SIR CHARLES LEONARD°
- WOOLLEY, SIR CHARLES LEONARD° (1880–1960), English
archaeologist. From 1905 to 1907 he was assistant keeper in the
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. His earliest excavation work was carried out
in England (Corbridge, 1906–07), Nubia (1907–11), and at Carchemish,
Turkey (1912–14). In 1914 he took part, along with T.E. Lawrence, in the
expedition surveying Sinai and the Negev, which was a cover for the
British military mapping of the Sinai Peninsula. Their report, The
Wilderness of Zion (1915), presents the first detailed description
of the Byzantine cities of the Negev. During World War I
Woolley served as a military intelligence officer and was taken prisoner
by the Turks in 1916. He was an officer in the military administration
in north Syria in 1919, at which time he resumed excavation at
Carchemish. This was followed by work at tell el-amarna in Egypt
(1921–22), and at ur of the chaldees (1922–34), where he
discovered the royal tombs of the first dynasty with their magnificent
treasures, and also uncovered the city dating from the time of Abraham
(Ur III). He then directed excavations in southern Turkey
(Hatay province), first at el-Mina (ancient Greek port of Poseidium)
from 1936 to 1937 and afterward at Tell Atshana (1937–39), where he
unearthed the remains of the alalakh kingdom . During World War
II he was archaeological adviser to the British War
Office and after the war again excavated at Tell Atshana (1946–49). In
addition to his excavation reports, he wrote Ur of the
Chaldees (1929); The Sumerians (1929); Middle East
Archaeology (1949); A Forgotten Kingdom (1953); several
popular works, especially Digging Up the Past (1930); and his
memoirs, Spadework in Archaeology (1953).
(Michael Avi-Yonah)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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Sir Charles Leonard Woolley — noun English archaeologist who supervised the excavations at Ur (1880 1960) • Syn: ↑Woolley, ↑Sir Leonard Woolley • Instance Hypernyms: ↑archeologist, ↑archaeologist … Useful english dictionary
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Sir Leonard Woolley — noun English archaeologist who supervised the excavations at Ur (1880 1960) • Syn: ↑Woolley, ↑Sir Charles Leonard Woolley • Instance Hypernyms: ↑archeologist, ↑archaeologist … Useful english dictionary
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