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Indepth Arts News: "Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur" 2000-02-20 until 2000-04-23 Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH, USA United States of America
A spectacular find, the Royal Cemetery excavations of that early era in archaeology remain one of the most remarkable technical achievements of Near Eastern archaeology,
and they helped to catapult Woolley's career. Indeed at the time of its discovery, the royal cemetery at Ur competed only with Howard Carter's discovery of the intact tomb of
the boy pharaoh, Tutankhamen, for public attention. Visitors to the site included Britain's Queen-consort Elizabeth and Iraq's King Faisal. By the end of the excavation in
1934 Woolley had become, as The Illustrated London News termed him, a famous archaeologist, with his own series on BBC Radio, and in little more than a year he was
awarded a knighthood. Mystery novelist Agatha Christie (1891-1976), who spent time with Woolley and his wife and later married Woolley's assistant, M.E.L. Mallowan,
melded her observations of the dig into Murder in Mesopotamia (1936).
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