Carchemish
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Carchemish, also spelled Karkemish, was an important ancient capital in the northern part of the region of Syria. At times during its history the city was independent, but it was also part of the Mitanni, Hittite and Neo-Assyrian Empires. Today it is on the frontier between Turkey and Syria.
Early Hittite carving found by T. E. Lawrence and Leonard Woolley (right) in Carchemish.
T. E. Lawrence and Leonard Woolley (right) in Carchemish, Spring 1913
Basalt lion head from the monument to King Katuwa at Carchemish, now in the British Museum
Yariri (r.) and Kamani (l.), resp. regent and future-ruler of Carchemish
Leonard Woolley
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Sir Charles Leonard Woolley was a British archaeologist best known for his excavations at Ur in Mesopotamia. He is recognized as one of the first "modern" archaeologists who excavated in a methodical way, keeping careful records, and using them to reconstruct ancient life and history. Woolley was knighted in 1935 for his contributions to the discipline of archaeology. He was married to the British archaeologist Katharine Woolley.
Woolley (right) and T. E. Lawrence with a Hittite slab at Carchemish during excavation, between 1912 and 1914.
Woolley in Syria, 1912