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William Loftus (archaeologist)
English archaeologist (1820–1858) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Kennett Loftus (13 November 1820, in Linton, Kent – 27 November 1858, at sea) was a British geologist, naturalist, explorer and archaeological excavator. He discovered the ancient Sumerian city of Uruk in 1849.[1]
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