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Leonard Woolley
'''Sir Charles Leonard Woolley''' ([[17 April]], [[1880]]&ndash;[[20 February]], [[1960]]) was a British [[archaeologist]], best known for his [[excavation]]s at [[Ur]] in [[Sumer]], [[ancient Mesopotamia]]. He was knighted in [[1935]] for his services to [[archaeology]].

Woolley was born in [[London]], and educated at [[New College, Oxford]].  In [[1905]], he became assistant keeper of the [[Ashmolean Museum]], [[Oxford]].  Then, on the recommendation of [[Sir Arthur Evans]], he became the first supervisor of the ''Corstopitum'' excavations at [[Corbridge]] in [[Northumberland]], in 1906 and 1907, under the direction of [[Francis Haverfield]]. He carried out major excavations at [[Carchemish]] just before the [[World War I|First World War]].  His work at [[Ur]] began in [[1922]], and he made important discoveries in the course of excavating the royal cemeteries there.  Woolley was one of the first "modern" archaeologists.

Woolley first started working as Assistant Keeper of the [[Ashmolean Museum]] at [[Oxford]] from 1905 until 1907. He worked with [[T.E. Lawrence]] from 1912 to 1914 and later in 1919 clearing [[Carchemish]], the [[Hittites|Hittite]] city, and in the [[Sinai Peninsula|Sinai]]. Woolley also worked in [[Tell el Amarna]] with the [[Egypt Exploration Society]]. From 1922 through 1934 he was in charge of the joint venture between the [[British Museum]] and the [[University of Pennsylvania]] excavating at Ur of the Chaldees where he made his greatest discovery.

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