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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Leonard Woolley
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(1880–1960, kt 1935) Archaeologist who from 1922 to 1934 excavated the royal cemetery at *Ur of the Chaldees, in Iraq. The spectacular Sumerian treasures, dating from the 3rd millennium BC, were divided between the museum in Baghdad, the *British Museum and the university of Pennsylvania.
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