Sir Charles Leonard Woolley (17 April 1880 – 20 February 1960) was a British archaeologist best known for his excavations at Ur in Mesopotamia. He is...
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principally at the Mesopotamian site of Ur. She was married to archaeologist Leonard Woolley. Katharine Menke was born in Birmingham, England in June 1888 to German...
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Nabonidus. Its remains were excavated in the 1920s and 1930s by Sir Leonard Woolley. Under Saddam Hussein in the 1980s, they were encased by a partial...
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worked under Hogarth, R. Campbell Thompson of the British Museum, and Leonard Woolley until 1914. He later stated that everything which he had accomplished...
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Larsa ruler Rim-Sîn I. The tablet was discovered and acquired by Sir Leonard Woolley, leading a joint expedition of the University of Pennsylvania and the...
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in the Baghdad Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire (now in Iraq). In 1927, Leonard Woolley excavated the site and identified it as a Sumerian archaeological site...
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because it was first rediscovered by the English archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley during his excavations of the Royal Cemetery at Ur between 1922 and...
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material was conducted initially in 1919 by Henry Hall and later by Leonard Woolley. Later, a layer of soil covered the occupation levels from the Ubaid...
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excavations at Ur took place between 1922 and 1934 under the direction of Leonard Woolley in association with the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania...
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studied classics at Oxford University, he was trained for archaeology by Leonard Woolley at Ur and Reginald Campbell Thompson at Nineveh. He then directed a...
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