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Charles Warren....
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A British soldier and police commissioner. Warren conducted the first
major excavations of Jerusalem, thereby ushering in a new age of Biblical
archaeology. His most significant discovery was a water shaft, now known
as Warren's shaft, but he also unwittingly published the first artifact
with an Israelite inscription--the LMLK seals.
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He was the Metropolitan Police Commissioner from 1886 to
1888, while a major-general in the British Army. During this period Jack the
Ripper committed the White chapel murders, and no additional murders were
attributed to the Ripper after Warren resigned from the force. |
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During the Boer War, as a lieutenant-general, he
commanded the 5th Division of the South African Field Force. At the Battle
of Spion Kop he had operational command and his failure of judgment was the
subject of much controversy. However his modest successes later in the
campaign allowed him to continue in the army and he was promoted general in
1904 just before he retired. |
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Between 1867 and 1870 Captain Warren carried out the
explorations in Palestine which form the basis for our knowledge of the
topography of ancient city Jerusalem and the archaeology of the
Temple Mount/Haram
al-Sherif. This first major expedition of the Fund, in addition to the
information it provided concerning Jerusalem, served to raise the public
interest in the work of the Fund sufficiently such that £60,000 was raised
by public subscription to carry out the great Survey of Western Palestine.
In addition to his explorations on, under, and around the Temple Mount/Haram
al-Sherif, Warren surveyed the Plain of Philistia and carried out a very
important reconnaissance of central Jordan. |
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