Archaeologist, born in London, UK. He studied at Oxford, and carried out excavations at Carchemish, al-Ubaid, and Tell el-Amarna. He subsequently directed the important excavations (192234) at Ur in Mesopotamia, revealing in 1926 spectacular discoveries of gold and lapis lazuli in the royal tombs. He was knighted in 1935, and wrote several popular accounts of his work, notably Digging Up the Past (1930).
(Discuss)Charles Leonard Woolley (17 April 1880–20 February 1960) was a British archaeologist, best known for his excavations at Ur in Mesopotamia.
Woolley was born in London, and educated at New College, Oxford. He carried out major excavations at Carchemish just before the First World War. His work at Ur began in 1922, and he made important discoveries in the course of excavating the royal cemeteries there.
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