Saturday, January 22, 2005

THERE'S AN OBITUARY OF ROGER MOOREY today in the Times:
Roger Moorey
Expert on the history and industries of Mesopotamia from the fourth millennium BC down to more recent biblical times

ROGER MOOREY was deeply respected throughout the global network of archaeologists working in the Near and Middle East. He was Assistant Keeper of Antiquities at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford for 19 years, and he wrote extensively on the excavated materials of Iran and Iraq, the Levant, Egypt and Turkey � from the fourth to the first millennia BC.

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He also worked with Kathleen Kenyon on the Jerusalem excavation in the 1960s.

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