Introduction

leonard woolley was a british archaeologist born in london, in the united kingdom in 18 80. He worked at sites of roman occupation before travelling abroad to work on sites along the nile valley. Woolley would ultimately end up working at a site which he is most well known for working act, and that sit is in mesopotamia. From the 19 twenties onwards, woolly would utilize hundreds of workmen to exhume thousands of bodies and discovered tens of thousands of artifacts. One of the things that he identified at the site was a flood stratum, which is a layer of sedimentary material which demonstrates that a flood had occurred in the past. Such