Editing Tel Lachish (section)

===Starkey-Tufnell expedition (1932–1939)===
[[File:Tel Deweir (Lachish). LOC matpc.03321.jpg|thumb|Tell Lachish, 1936]]
The first expedition at Lachish, then Tell ed-Duweir, from 1932 to 1939, was the Starkey-Tufnell<ref name="Garfinkel_Qeiyafa_Lachish_2013">{{cite journal |url=http://tortenelemszak.uni-miskolc.hu/Hallgatoi_anyagok/BA_regeszet/oskori_kelet_forrasai/Garfinkel_et_al_2013._f_Qeiyafa_and_Lachish-libre.pdf |journal=[[Biblical Archaeology Review]] |volume=39 |number=6 |date=December 2013 |title=An Ending and a Beginning: Why we're leaving Qeiyafa and going to Lachish|access-date=January 30, 2018|first1=Yosef |last1=Garfinkel |first2=Michael |last2=Hasel |first3=Martin G. |last3=Klingbeil}}</ref> British expedition which included [[James Leslie Starkey]] as expedition leader, [[Olga Tufnell]], G.L. Harding and C. Inge.<ref name="PEF_Tufnell">{{cite web |url=https://www.pef.org.uk/profiles/olga-tufnell-1905-1985 |title=Olga Tufnell, 1905–1985 |publisher=The Palestine Exploration Fund |location=London, UK |date=nd |access-date=January 30, 2018}}</ref> It was funded by Charles Marston and [[Henry Wellcome]] with the aim of finding the Biblical city of Lachish.<ref name="Tufnell_1986">{{cite journal|title=Olga Tufnell (1904–1985)|journal=Levant|date=1 January 1986|volume=18|issue=1|pages=1–2|first1=Ros |last1=Henry and |first2= Vronwy |last2=Hankey |doi=10.1179/lev.1986.18.1.1}}</ref> They succeeded in finding Lachish, with a "wealth of well-stratified pottery", a "key part of the ceramic corpus of Palestine",<ref name="PEF_Tufnell" /> and the [[Lachish letters]], c. "written to the commander of the garrison at Lachish shortly before it fell to the Babylonians in either 589 or 586 B.C."<ref name="PEF_Tufnell" /> Starkey was murdered in 1938 while travelling to Jerusalem to open the [[Rockefeller Museum|Rockefeller Archaeological Museum]]. Tufnell, Harding and Inge remained for the 1938–1939 season. Tufnell returned to London and over the next two decades, worked at the [[UCL Institute of Archaeology|Institute of Archaeology]] in London, "sorting, collating, studying and presenting the material found at Lachish". She completed her final publication ''Lachish IV'' in 1957. She had already become a [[List of Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London|Fellow]] of the [[Society of Antiquaries of London]] in 1951.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Ussishkin|first1=David|title=Lachish Renewed Archaeological Excavations: Lachish and the Previous Excavations|url=http://www.penn.museum/documents/publications/expedition/pdfs/20-4/ussishkin.pdf|access-date=21 February 2016|publisher=Penn Museum|date=1978|page=18}}</ref><ref name="Magrill">{{cite book|last1=Magrill|first1=Pamela|title=A Researcher's Guide to the Lachish Collection in the British Museum|date=2006|publisher=The British Museum|isbn=0-86159-161-5|url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/0Prelims.pdf|access-date=21 February 2016}}</ref><ref name="Garfinkel_Qeiyafa_Lachish_2013" /><ref>{{cite book |first=James Leslie |last=Starkey |title=Lachish I (Tell ed Duweir): Lachish Letters |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1938}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Olga Tufnell |display-authors=etal |title=Lachish II., (Tell ed Duweir). The Fosse Temple |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1940|author-link=Olga Tufnell}}</ref>

[[File:El Qubeiba 1947.jpg|thumb|Tel Lachish 1947 (1:20,000)]]