James Leslie Starkey

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James Leslie Starkey (January 3, 1895 - January 10, 1938) was a noted British archaeologist of the ancient Near East and Palestine in the period before the Second World War. The chief excavator of the first archaeological expedition to the important site of Lachish (Tell ed-Duweir) from 1932, Starkey was killed by Arab terrorists near Hebron. He is buried in Jerusalem's Protestant Cemetery on Mount Zion.