The Young T. E. Lawrence by Anthony Sattin

Author:Anthony Sattin [Sattin, Anthony]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Tags: History, Biography
ISBN: 9780393242676
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2015-01-26T00:00:00+00:00

* Thompson stayed in Surrey for the next two years, excavated in Egypt in 1913 and fought in Mesopotamia in World War I.

† Woolley’s reputation today rests on his work in the 1920s at the Sumerian city of Ur, where he discovered the royal cemetery, and earned himself a knighthood for services to archaeology.

‡ In an earlier incarnation, as the Hôtel d’Orient, the hotel had hosted the novelists Gustave Flaubert and William Thackeray.

§ Petrie’s hunch about Bahrain was sound: in the 1950s, Danish archaeologists found one of the world’s largest ancient cemeteries at Dilmun.

¶ Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti was the first to use aerial bombardment when he ‘decided to try to throw bombs from the aeroplane’ at a Turkish position on 1 November 1911.

# This organisation was later enlarged by Presidents Nasser, Sadat and Mubarak and still exists as the Muhabbarat, the secret police.

** Lawrence and Woolley both bought cheaply from Marcopoli ‘the day before they were expelled’ (HL p. 195).

†† The Reverend’s habit of playing on words, only sometimes intentionally, is known as a spoonerism.

‡‡ Cadi: a judge in Islamic law.

§§ The Carchemish site remains a Turkish military base.

¶¶ Archaeologists now working at Carchemish report that ‘The mosaic dating from AD 300 is still there, with its animals and geometrical motifs, damaged along its middle axis but fine on the sides’ (email from Professor Nicolò Marchetti to author, 9 October 2013).

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