Leonard Woolley

"At a moment when the world is asking "Can the religions get along?" Abraham stands as the shared ancestor of Jews, Christians, and Muslims. He holds the key to our deepest fears - and our possible reconciliation.". "Bruce Feiler set out on a personal quest to better understand our common patriarch. Traveling in war zones, climbing through caves and ancient shrines, and sitting down with the world's leading religious minds, Feiler discovers the untold story of the man who defines faith for half the world."--BOOK JACKET.

Traces the planning and execution of the 1922 archaeological expedition to Ur in southern Iraq and the discovery of the tombs and the ancient city.

Survey of the art and archaeology of the countries later known as Anatolia, Syria, Palestine, Iraq and Elan, together with the whole of the Arabian peninsula.

An autobiography of the archeologist Sir Leonard Woolley tracing his career as an archaeologist from his first dig in England in 1907 to Syria in 1948. Gives a desciption of his state of archaeology before there were any Universities teaching the subject, how he had been trained as a classicist and in antiquities before becoming an archaeologist and having to learn on the job. He then moves down to Egypt as the apprentice of an archaeologist named MacIver. While digging in Turkey in 1912 at the ruins of Carchemish he gives an interesting and frank discussion of how he encouraged looting and smuggled the artifacts to the British Museum under the nose of the Turkish government authorities. In this way the book is a representation of the changes that archaeology went through during its transition from amateur treasure hunters to professional scientists through the career of one of its practitioners who is in the middle of these changes.

An introduction to the seventh temporary exhibition of the joint expedition of the British Musesum and of the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania to Mesopotamia

Account of an archaeological survey made by the authors in southern Palestine. Cf. Introd.

"On a summer evening in Stratford, Ontario, the errant thrust of a gardener's spade slices a telephone cable into instant silence. The resulting disconnection is devastating. With the failure of one call to reach the house, an ambitious young actor becomes the victim of sexual blackmail. The blocking of a second call leads tragically to murder. And when a Bell Canada repairman arrives to mend the broken line, his innocent yet irresistible male beauty has explosive consequences."--BOOK JACKET.