The Wilderness of Zin - Hardcover

Lawrence gained a first in history at Oxford, for which he wrote a renowned thesis on Crusader castles, before he embarked upon a career as an archaeologist. Woolley had already dug extensively in Egypt, Italy, and Britain before he joined Lawrence at Carchemish on the Euphrates in 1912. After his famous exploits in the First World War, Lawrence enrolled in both the Royal Air Force and the Tank Corps before his tragic death in a motorcycle accident. Woolley went on to become one of the greatest archaeologists of the 20th century, his reputation being made at Ur in Iraq.