Olga Tufnell's 'perfect journey' : letters and photographs of an archaeologist in the Levant and Mediterranean /

Olga Tufnell (1905-85) was a British archaeologist working in Egypt, Cyprus and Palestine in the 1920s and 1930s, a period often described as a golden age of archaeological discovery. For the first time, this book presents Olga's account of her experiences in her own words. Based largely on let...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors: Green, Jack (Museum curator) (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : UCL Press, 2021.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Maps
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • A Note on the Letters, Photographs and Illustrations
  • List of Principal Persons
  • Maps
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Qau el-Kebir, Egypt, 1927
  • 3 Tell Fara, 1927-9
  • 4 Cyprus, 1929-30
  • 5 Tell el-'Ajjul, 1930-2
  • 6 Tell ed-Duweir (Lachish): The First Season, 1932-3
  • 7 The Journey Home Overland, 1933
  • 8 Tell ed-Duweir (Lachish): Second, Third and Fourth Seasons, 1933-6
  • 9 Tell ed-Duweir (Lachish): Fifth and Sixth Seasons, 1936-8
  • Epilogue
  • Biographical Index
  • Index of Places
  • Back Cover