Palestine Exploration Fund

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The Palestine Exploration Fund is a British society, it is often simply known as the PEF.

[edit] History

Founded in 1865 by a group of Biblical archaeologists and clergymen, the most notable of these were the Dean of Westminster Abbey, Arthur P. Stanley, and Sir George Grove (who also founded the Royal College of Music, and was responsible for Grove's Dictionary of Music). It conducted many early excavations of biblical and postbiblical sites around the Levant, as well as studies involving natural history, anthropology, history and geography.

Among the most noteworthy individuals associated with the Fund were:

• Charles Warren,
• Horatio Kitchener,
• Edward Henry Palmer,
• George Grove,
• T.E. Lawrence,
• Kathleen Kenyon,
• Arthur Stanley.

[edit] The PEF Today

Today the Fund is based in Marylebone, London and holds regular events and lectures as well as providing for an annual grant for various projects. Their offices also house collections of photographs, pictures, maps and various antiquaries.

[edit] External links

• Palestine Exploration Fund - official web site
• The PEF map published in 1880