| Edgar James Banks |
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| 1866 births | |
| banks, edgar james | |
| 1945 deaths | |
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Though he had been funded for an expedition to the site of Ur , Banks was foiled by the Ottoman administration, who would not permit digs at Babylon or Tell Ibrahim, other prominent sites. In 1903 it was decided that his excavations were to be at Bismya, the site of ancient Adab, in Iraq. His 1912 publication about his excavations at Bismya/Bismaya ( Adab ), the Sumer ian city now in Iraq , contains some lively accounts of his struggles with the Ottoman bureaucracy (see link below). After World War I , Banks travelled and lectured extensively, scattering his cuneiform tablets among purchasers wherever he went. Tablets Banks sold to Charles W. Ames are now in the Science Museum at the University of Minnesota and many other private and public sites in the U.S... Edgar Banks also started two movie companies, and climbed Mount Ararat in a search for Noah's Ark . Cecil B. DeMille apparently invited Banks to become a consultant on bible epics in 1921. EXTERNAL LINKS
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