William Kennett Loftus (13 November 1820, in Linton, Kent – 27 November 1858, at sea) was a British geologist, naturalist, explorer and archaeological...
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William Loftus may refer to: William Loftus (archaeologist), British geologist, naturalist, explorer and archaeological excavator William Loftus (British...
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events in archaeology that occurred in 1851. Some excavation at Susa by William Loftus, who identifies the location. J. Collingwood Bruce's The Roman Wall:...
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archaeology that occurred in 1850. First excavations at Uruk by William Kennett Loftus (continues to 1854). Skara Brae revealed by weather. Tara Brooch...
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the reign of Adad-nirari III (811 to 783 BC) discovered in 1854 by William Loftus in his excavations at Nimrud on behalf of the Assyrian Excavation Fund...
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"waste village" when Adam Loftus bought it. It is believed the present castle was built around 1583 for then-Archbishop Loftus. The castle was not long...
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S. Navy Capt. William F. Lynch identifies Tell el Kadi as the site of the ancient city of Dan. Site of Uruk discovered by William Loftus. Tunnel dug into...
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by Fraser and Ross in 1835. William Loftus excavated there in 1850 and 1854 after a scouting mission in 1849. By Loftus' own account, he admits that...
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Henry Adrian Churchill (category English archaeologists)
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...
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List of Assyriologists (category Lists of archaeologists)
1934–2019), former director of the Iraq Museum. Leonard William King (British, 1869–1919), archaeologist known for his translations of ancient works such as...
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Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham. It was Buckingham who had Adam Loftus, 1st Viscount Loftus, for many years Lord Chancellor of Ireland, dismissed as judge...
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Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy (category Archaeologists from Toulouse)
and his wife explored the remains of the palace first uncovered by William Loftus some thirty years previously. During this visit, the Dieulafoys took...
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successfully deciphered some bricks from that location, brought to England by William Loftus in 1849. The site was first excavated in 1853 and 1854, on behalf of...
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rudimentary archaeological standards of his day, by William Loftus in 1850 for less than a month. Loftus recovered building bricks of Nebuchadnezzar II of...
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least the 1930s, is very similar to one associated with Loftus Hall, County Wexford. The Loftus family owned a hunting lodge – known as Dolly Mount – which...
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1850s, the British Assyrian Excavation Fund entered the field under William Kennett Loftus and many antiquities and accurate drawings of wall sculptures were...
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Christian faith. According to one of the world's leading biblical archaeologists, William G. Dever, Archaeology certainly doesn't prove literal readings...
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sociologist. Birubala Rabha, 70, Indian human rights activist, esophageal cancer. Loftus Roker, 88, Bahamian politician. Clarence Sasser, 76, American soldier, Medal...
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completed a map of Babylon which includes the location of several villages. William Loftus visited there in 1849. Austen Henry Layard made some soundings during...
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and Ireland 85, no. 1/2 (1955): 173-191. Noriko Seguchi, James Frances Loftus III, Shiori Yonemoto, Mary-Margaret Murphy. Investigating intentional cranial...
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Augustus Lochner (1827–1865), English soldier and cricketer Lord Augustus Loftus (1817–1904), British-Australian diplomat and colonial administrator Augustus...
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John George Taylor (category English archaeologists)
Rawlinson, also known as "the Father of Assyriology". After a visit by William Kennett Loftus to the site of Ur, Taylor began excavations there in 1853, and continued...
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2024. "Official website of Queens Park Rangers for the latest news from Loftus Road". QPR FC. Retrieved 24 February 2024. "Former England and QPR forward...
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Miss Peach and Momma Richard Lederer – author of books on word play Jamie Loftus – comedian, writer, and animator, created the podcast "My Year In Mensa"...
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Minister 1809–1812 (Tory); assassinated William Waddington (1826–1894), French Prime Minister 1879; archaeologist Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626), lawyer...
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Nimrud ivories (section Loftus (1854–1855))
William Kennett Loftus's excavations in 1854–1855. They were found in a group of buildings labelled the "South-East Palace" or "Burnt Palace"; Loftus...
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Letts (1897–1918), First World War flying ace Maj George Henry Wellington Loftus, 7th Marquess of Ely (1903–1969), soldier Maj Galbraith Lowry-Corry, 7th...
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Nineveh by Austen Henry Layard, his assistant Hormuzd Rassam, and W. K. Loftus in the early 1850s. Late in the following decade, the British Museum hired...
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Kurnell, Cape Solander Drive: Kamay Botany Bay National Park Loftus, Illawarra railway: Loftus Junction railway signal box Woronora Dam (suburb): Woronora...
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Elizabeth G. Loboa, American engineer and academic administrator Elizabeth Loftus (born 1944), American cognitive psychologist Elizabeth Lomax (1810–1895)...
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