Woolley, Sir Charles Leonard

Woolley, Sir Charles Leonard (1880-1960), archeologist, b. London.

From 1922-34, Leonard Woolley was in charge of excavations on the site of the ancient city of Ur in present-day Iraq, believed to be the birthplace of Abraham.

His discoveries revealed a great deal about the people who lived there, the Sumerians.

The discoveries included royal graves containing treasure, a wide variety of objects relating to daily life and a fairly well-preserved ziggurat or man-made hill on which a temple had stood.

See C. Leonard Woolley The Sumerians