Question

In one tomb, this archaeologist discovered a headdress made of golden leaves, four stringed lyres, and a golden and lapis lazuli encrusted bull’s head. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this British archaeologist who in 1922 led an excavation of the Sumerian city of Ur.
ANSWER: Leonard Woolley [or Sir Charles Leonard Woolley]
[10e] Woolley excavated a “Great” one of these buildings in Ur. These buildings are temple complexes, and are often step-pyramids.
ANSWER: ziggurat
[10h] Before excavating Ur, Woolley and his assistant T.E. Lawrence worked for British Naval Intelligence monitoring the progress of this project. This project would have satisfied a country’s ambition to have easy access to Mesopotamian oil fields and the Persian Gulf.
ANSWER: Berlin-Baghdad railway
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2023 ILLIAC (Cornell)2023-10-21Y410.0075%0%25%
2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite)2023-10-21Y812.50100%0%25%

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SIUE AChicago A010010
Chicago BPurdue A010010
Chicago CMichigan A010010
Ohio State COhio State A0101020
Purdue BMichigan B010010
Chicago DPurdue C010010
Ohio State BSIUE B010010
WUSTLMissouri0101020