2017/04/13 by Rosalind Wade Haddon · 1 citation
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Archaeological Research and Protection #Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies #Museums and Cultural Heritage #Scholarship #Islam #Desert (philosophy) #Ancient history #Period (music) #Politics #History #Archaeology #Classics #Art #Political science #Law
paper · doi:10.5871/bacad/9780197266076.003.0005
openalex publication_date 2017/04/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Gertrude Bell’s active ‘Islamic Archaeology’ phase roughly covers the period 1909–14, at a time when she was as interested in Arab tribes and Ottoman politics, and frustratingly her diaries frequently concentrate on the latter. She undertook three major expeditions in 1909, 1911 and 1913–14 – the first two covered Iraq and Anatolia and the ultimate one present-day Jordan and Saudi Arabia. She planned, mapped, photographed and provided descriptions of the major desert sites, corresponded with professional archaeologists discussing her discoveries and published the first plans of Ukhaidir, Iraq and Qasr-i Shirin, southern Iran. Fortunately for modern scholarship she published many of these journeys and left her notes, diaries and archives in the public domain.