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    Gerald Lankester Harding CBE (8 December 1901 – 11 February 1979) was a British archaeologist who was the director of the Department of Antiquities of...
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  • himself. Merrin is loosely based on the British archaeologist Gerald Lankester Harding, though in the film he is played by Max von Sydow with a noticeably...
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  • Father Merrin character were based on the British archaeologist Gerald Lankester Harding, who had excavated the caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls had been...
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  • Jordanian Department of Antiquities. Working with his partner Gerald Lankester Harding and other western archaeologists, he played a role in a number...
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    at Oxford under Godfrey Driver in 1953, Allegro was invited by Gerald Lankester Harding to join the team of scholars working on the Dead Sea Scrolls in...
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    Freedman Jean-Baptiste Humbert Florentino García Martínez Norman Golb Gerald Lankester Harding Yizhar Hirschfeld Ernest-Marie Laperrousaz Jodi Magness Józef Milik...
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    March 1949 by the Jordanian Department of Antiquities, led by Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux.: 9  The Cave 1 site yielded discoveries of...
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    joint investigation of the cave site was led by Roland de Vaux and Gerald Lankester Harding from 15 February to 5 March 1949. The interest in the scrolls with...
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    from Cave 11 that he claimed to have seen, Strugnell had heard Gerald Lankester Harding, the director of Jordan's Department of Antiquities (1936–1956)...
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  • dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. 1949 – Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves...
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    Freedman Jean-Baptiste Humbert Florentino García Martínez Norman Golb Gerald Lankester Harding Yizhar Hirschfeld Ernest-Marie Laperrousaz Jodi Magness Józef Milik...
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    were subject to arrest, and to being shot if they resisted. Born: Gerald Lankester Harding, British archaeologist who worked to bring public attention to...
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    headquarters of the Jordanian Department of Antiquities, headed by Gerald Lankester Harding until 1956. In 1966, the museum was nationalized by King Hussein...
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    in August 1952, and was excavated from 22–29 September 1952 by Gerald Lankester Harding, Roland de Vaux, and Józef Milik.: 10–11  Cave 4 is actually two...
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    border. Full-scale work at the site began after Roland de Vaux and Gerald Lankester Harding in 1949 excavated what became known as Cave 1, the first scroll-bearing...
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    2014, p. 1-3 [1]Sparks, Rachael Thyrza, "Digging with Petrie: Gerald Lankester Harding at Tell Jemmeh, 1926–1927", Bulletin of the History of Archaeology...
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    the confirmation that the new texts had come from Murabba'at, Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux commenced official excavations there in January...
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    in August 1952, and was excavated from 22–29 September 1952 by Gerald Lankester Harding, Roland de Vaux, and Józef Milik. Cave 4 is actually two hand-cut...
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    and Christian officials and headed by the British archaeologist Gerald Lankester Harding until 1956, field archaeology was conducted primarily by foreigners...
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    published the corpus of inscriptions, were involved. From 1959 Gerald Lankester Harding began the first systematic inventories of the archaeological objects...
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    purchased separately on the antiquities market in 1953–54, by Gerald Lankester Harding, Frank Moore Cross and Józef Milik. They were later ascertained...
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    as refuges during the Bar Kokhba revolt. Excavated in 1952 by Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux, the caves yielded textiles, basketry, ropes...
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    discovered in August 1952, and was excavated on 22–29 September 1952 by Gerald Lankester Harding, Roland de Vaux, and Józef Milik. This scroll is in a very fragmented...
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    in Jerusalem in 1971. He had worked on several excavations when Gerald Lankester Harding, the director of the Jordanian Antiquities Department, contacted...
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    Freedman Jean-Baptiste Humbert Florentino García Martínez Norman Golb Gerald Lankester Harding Yizhar Hirschfeld Ernest-Marie Laperrousaz Jodi Magness Józef Milik...
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  • the university may continue scientific research. February 15 - Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves...
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  • General of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan. He succeeded Gerald Lankester Harding, who had headed the department between 1939 and 1956. Gharaybeh...
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  • Toqan, 1931 Adeeb al-Kayed, 1933 Hisham Kair, 1933–1939 Gerald Lankester Harding, 1939–1956. Harding's book "The Antiquities of Jordan" is still considered...
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    (as opposed to scrolls) were found at Qumran. In January 1952 Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux commenced excavations in four caves at Wadi...
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  • Freedman Jean-Baptiste Humbert Florentino García Martínez Norman Golb Gerald Lankester Harding Yizhar Hirschfeld Ernest-Marie Laperrousaz Jodi Magness Józef Milik...
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