Now in present day Iraq, Ur was a city that rose from the "Mounds of Pitch," ten miles west of the Euphrates. Sir Leonard Woolley documents his experience as leader of the influential archeological expedition at Ur. This treatise is particularly relevant today in remembering the great treasures yielded from this cradle of civilization.

First published in 2010. Sir Leonard Woolley was an archaeologist and this book is about his dig at Ur, which is the subject of this classic work, inspired Agatha Christie's Murder in Mesopotamia. When Woolley began work at Dr, little was known about the early civilizations of Mesopotamia. His work at Dr over twelve years, which included the excavation of royal tombs, the discovery of the gold jewellery of Queen PuAbi and the excavation of the famous ziggurat, allowed scholars to reconstruct the civilization of Sumer in the 3rd century B.C.

The Wilderness of Zin, first published as the Annual Palestine Exploration Fund for 1914/15, describes an extraordinary archaeological survey carried out as cover for a British military mapping operation in southern Palestine - today's Negev - just before the outbreak of The First World War. The most comprehensive account of the region 90 years ago

Worth approx. $1000 now (10/98) per Nancy Heidebrecht.