William Loftus (archaeologist)

William Loftus 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. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Travels and researches in Chaldaea and Susiana ; with an account of excavations at Warka, the "Erech" of Nimrod, and Shush, "Shushan the Palace" of Esther, in 1849-52 : under the orders of Major-General Sir W.F. William of Kars and also of the Assyrian excavation fund in 1853-4 /
    by Loftus, William Kennett
    Published 1857
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