James Leslie Starkey
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1895 – 1938
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Who was James Leslie Starkey?
James Leslie Starkey was a noted British archaeologist of the ancient Near East and Palestine in the period before the Second World War. The chief excavator of the first archaeological expedition to the important site of Lachish from 1932, Starkey was robbed and killed by Arab bandits near Bayt Jibrin on a track leading from Bayt Jibrin to Hebron. He is buried in Protestant Cemetery on Mount Zion, Jerusalem.
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