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Jan 26, 1905 Sudbury, England, United Kingdom Died on 11 Apr 1985 (aged 80)
British archaeologist
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About Olga Tufnell
- Olga Tufnell (26 January 1905 – 11 April 1985) was a British archaeologist who assisted on the excavation of the ancient city of Lachish in the 1930s.
- She had no formal training in archaeology, but had worked as a secretary for Flinders Petrie for a number of years before being given a field assignment.
- Olga then went on to join James Leslie Starkey in the expedition to find Lachish in 1929 and remained part of the team for the following seasons. When Starkey was killed in 1938, the team finished the season then closed the site.
- Olga volunteered to write up the report of the dig and spent the following twenty years researching and writing up the majority of the excavation report.
- Olga's work has been regarded as the "pre-eminent source book for Palestinian archeology".
- Once the report was published, she turned her attention to cataloguing scarabs and other seals.
