This musical instrument was found in the 1920s by British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley during excavations at the Royal Cemetery at Ur, an ancient city in Mesopotamia that is now part of Iraq.
MR. LEONARD WOOLLEY'S first report on the current season's work at Ur, which appeared in the Times for Feb. 12, chronicles inter alia the discovery of a burial of a type “quite out of the ...
So it's not surprising that it was at Ur that the great archaeologist Leonard Woolley chose to carry out his excavations in the 1920s. At Ur, Woolley found royal tombs which themselves could have ...
It is gratifying, therefore, to learn that an expedition under Sir Leonard Woolley, organised by the British Museum (Bloomsbury), has just left to excavate in Northern Syria.
So it's not surprising that it was at Ur that the great archaeologist Leonard Woolley chose to carry out his excavations in the 1920s. At Ur, Woolley found royal tombs which themselves could have ...