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3 unusual facts about Ephraim Avigdor Speiser


Ephraim Avigdor Speiser

He was field director of the Joint Excavation of the ASOR and the University Museum, 1930–1932, 1936–1937, undertaking excavations in Tepe Gawra and Tell Billa.

He discovered the ancient site of Tepe Gawra in 1927 and supervised its excavation between 1931 and 1938.

While there in 1927 he discovered the Tepe Gawra (or "Great Mound"), one of the world's earliest cradles of civilization.



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