Leonard Woolley at Ur, English Archeologist

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Leonard Woolley at Ur, English Archeologist
Woolley removes a buried figurine from a grave at Ur. Charles Leonard Woolley (1880-1960) was a English archaeologist best known for his excavations at Ur in Mesopotamia. He began his excavation career in 1906, later admitting that he had never studied archaeological methods even from books and had no idea how to make a survey or a ground plan. His work at Ur (in charge of the joint venture between the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania) began in 1922. Ur was the burial site of what may have been many Sumerian royals and he discovered tombs of great material wealth. Inside these tombs were large paintings of ancient Sumerian culture at its zenith, along with gold and silver jewelry, cups and other furnishings. At Ur he developed new methods of excavating fragile, decayed, or broken artefacts. He is considered to have been one of the first modern archaeologists, and was knighted in 1935 for his contributions to the discipline of
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