The life and works of Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell
(1868-1926), the British archaeologist, writer and government official who founded an archaeological museum in Baghdad and became Iraq's Director of Antiquities.
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Text of 'Amurath to Amurath' from Gertrude Bell's journey through Greater Syria to Iraq.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne Library has undertaken a 4 year project to check and complete the transcription of the manuscripts, to recatalogue and digitise the photographs, and to build a WWW for the finished archive.
She was an archaeologist, a linguist and the greatest woman mountaineer of her age. And in Baghdad in 1921 she drew the boundaries of the country that became Iraq. From The Guardian.
She was an archaeologist, a linguist and the greatest woman mountaineer of her age. And in Baghdad in 1921 she drew the boundaries of the country that became Iraq. From The Guardian.
Text of 'Amurath to Amurath' from Gertrude Bell's journey through Greater Syria to Iraq.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne Library has undertaken a 4 year project to check and complete the transcription of the manuscripts, to recatalogue and digitise the photographs, and to build a WWW for the finished archive.
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