Montagu Brownlow Parker, 5th Earl of Morley

Not to be confused with Monty Bowden.
Montagu Parker (left) with Louis-Hugues Vincent around 1909–1911 in Jerusalem near Warren's Shaft
Handwritten notes of Valter Juvelius (vers 1918–1920)

Montagu Brownlow Parker, 5th Earl of Morley (born 1878, died 1962) was a British aristocrat and ex-army officer was best known for being one of the first Raiders of the Lost Ark. His father was Albert Edmund Parker, 3rd Earl of Morley and Parker became earl in 1952 after the death of his older brother Edmund Robert Parker, 4th Earl of Morley. He led the "Parker Expedition", which carried out excavations searching for treasure from Solomon's Temple between 1909 and 1911. Neil Asher Silberman described the expedition as "Conceived in folly, but planned with cunning, the Parker Mission had come to Jerusalem with a single goal: to locate and unearth the fantastic treasure of Solomon’s Temple buried beneath the Temple Mount."[1]

Parker map

Parker map ~1920. At 9 showing the "V" marking referred by Eli Shukron

The first expedition map documented the location of tunnels and artifacts discovered in and on the bedrock in the areas around Warrens Shaft on the eastern slopes of the mountain above the Spring Citadel over the Gihon Spring. In recent years many of the map elements were verified by archaeologist Eli Shukron.

References

  1. ↑ Silberman, Neil Parker (July–August 1980). "In Search of Solomon’s Lost Treasures". Biblical Archaeology Review 6 (4). Retrieved 23 October 2014.