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Sir Charles Leonard Woolley 1880-1960, English archaeologist. His early work included excavations at Carchemish (1912-14) and the Egyptian site of Tel-el-Amarna (1921-22). He was then chosen to direct the joint British Museum and Univ. of Pennsylvania expedition at Ur in Mesopotamia (1922-34), where his findings did much to further the study of the Sumerian civilization in the 3d millennium BC Woolley oversaw the excavation of the ...

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