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2 unusual facts about Nelson Glueck


Nelson Glueck

During World War II, Glueck used his intimate knowledge of Palestine's geography to help the Office of Strategic Services develop a contingency plan for a retreat from Rommel's advance through Northern Africa.

He was the first to identify some ancient wares such as the Edomite pottery and Midianite ware, while he re-discovered the now-called Negevite pottery.



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Gezer

Other notable archaeological expeditions to the site were made by Alan Rowe (1934), G.E. Wright, William Dever and Joe Seger between 1964 and 1974 on behalf of the Nelson Glueck School of Archaeology in the Hebrew Union College, again by Dever in 1984 and 1990, as well as the Andrews University.