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William Kennett Loftus (13 November 1820, in Linton, Kent – 27 November 1858, at sea) was a British geologist, naturalist, explorer and archaeological excavator. He discovered the ancient Sumerian city of Uruk in 1849.
Loftus, consists of four mounds. One held the citadel and was excavated (1897–1908) by Jacques de Morgan, who uncovered, among other objects, the obelisk of the Akkadian king Manishtusu, the stele of his successor Naram-Sin, and the code of Hammurabi of Babylon.
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- History of The City and Discovery of The Ivories
- The Importance of The Nimrud Ivories
- The Different Styles of The Ivories
- Further Excavations at Nimrud & The Ivories Today
When Layard began his work at Nimrud, he did not even know which city he was excavating. He believed he had discovered Nineveh and, in fact, published his best-selling book on the excavation, Nineveh and its Remains, in 1849 CE, still confident in that belief. His book was so popular, and the artifacts he uncovered so intriguing, that further exped...
Historian and curator Joan Lines of the Metropolitan Museum of Art describes these pieces: Layard's expedition had uncovered the first of the ivories, while Loftus discovered many more. While Loftus was working at Nimrud, the city of Nineveh was positively identified and international attention, and funding, went toward that excavation as well as w...
When they were discovered, they were at first cleaned using Agatha Christie's face cream. An article in the Daily Mailfrom 2011 cites a passage from Christie's 1977 autobiography in which she wrote how "I had my own favourite tools; an orange stick, a very fine knitting needle... and a jar of cosmetic face cream for gently coaxing the dirt out of t...
In 1988-1989 CE the Iraq Offices of Antiquity and Heritage again excavated at Nimrud and uncovered further treasures and valuable discoveries such as the tomb of Queen Yaba, wife of Tiglath-Pileser III and that of Queen Atalia, wife of Sargon II, along with great quantities of gold and jewels; but no more ivories. The ivories discovered by Layard, ...
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4. 217 views 1 month ago. Dr John Curtis on ‘William Kennett Loftus: a 19th Century Archaeologist in Mesopotamia’ This lecture is based on a collection of unpublished letters from William...
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The ziggurat at Ur as published by William Kennett Loftus in 1857. Though never again inhabited, the site was often ‘rediscovered’, since its characteristic ziggurat never really disappeared. Anyone adventuring through the desert in the area would naturally notice it standing high above the plain.
Dec 15, 1998 · By the beginning of the l850s, however, William Kennett Loftus, a member of a British boundary commission who had been responsible for the first brief soundings at Warka in southern Mesopotamia, was already persuaded of the far wider significance of the site of Susa.
William Kennett Loftus. Also known as. William Kennett Loftus. primary name: Loftus, William Kennett. Details. individual; archaeologist; scientist/engineer; British; Male. Life dates. 1820-1858. Biography.
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