Illustrated. The narrative of A Forgotten Kingdom takes the reader on a journey through more than four thousand years of man's progress in a corner of NW. Syria. Here we may see what the spade can do to extract knowledge from the ground and how a judicious choice of ancient sites can restore to the light long forgotten sequences of civilization.

Woolley, (Charles) Leonard
English archaeologist. After taking part in an expedition to Nubia 1907–11, he excavated the Hittite city of Carchemish in Syria until 1914; Tell el Amarna in Egypt; Atchana (the ancient Alalakh) in the Hatay near Antioch on the Turkish-Syrian border 1935–39 and 1946–49; and brought to light the ancient Sumerian civilization at Ur in Iraq.
In 1929 Woolley claimed that silt deposits at Ur attested to a flood that might have given rise to the Bible story.
Besides his scholarly excavation reports, he published popular accounts of his work which helped to promote archaeology to a nonspecialist audience. Titles include Ur of the Chaldees 1929, Digging Up the Past 1930, and A Forgotten Kingdom 1953. ( )