Another tragic death of an archeologist was of James Leslie Starkey, who was engaged in excavating Lachish in then British mandated Palestine. Returning to Jerusalem in 1938, he was killed by Arab marauders during the period of the Revolt against Britain and the Jewish community at the time.
Yisrael Medad, Shiloh, Israel
Sunday, October 28, 2007
My Comment at the TLS
Times Literary Supplement
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