from Sedro Woolley, WA
1820
Died:1858
He discovered the ancient Sumerian city of Uruk in 1849.
In 1845 he married Charlotte Thulbourne....
the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle
Specialty:Archaeologist • Naturalist • Geologist
Area of science:Geology
Professions and applied sciences:Artillery
19th-century English writer
…While serving in the frontier commission, along with friend and fellow archaeologist William Loftus and a detachment of troops, he rode across the desert and marshes of Chaldaea from the Euphrates to the lower Tigris, observing remains as they went.…