Henry Adrian Churchill
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Henry Adrian Churchill was an archaeologist of ancient Mesopotamia and a friend of his fellow archaeologist William Kennett Loftus
. As part of the 1849-52 Turco-Persian frontier commission sent by the British government, he, Loftus and a detachment of troops rode across the desert and marshes of Chaldaea from the Euphrates
to the lower Tigris
, observing remains as they went.
William Loftus
William Kennett Loftus was a British geologist, naturalist, explorer and archaeological excavator. He discovered the ancient Sumerian city of Uruk in 1849.-Biography:...
. As part of the 1849-52 Turco-Persian frontier commission sent by the British government, he, Loftus and a detachment of troops rode across the desert and marshes of Chaldaea from the Euphrates
Euphrates
The Euphrates is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia. Together with the Tigris, it is one of the two defining rivers of Mesopotamia...
to the lower Tigris
Tigris
The Tigris River is the eastern member of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates. The river flows south from the mountains of southeastern Turkey through Iraq.-Geography:...
, observing remains as they went.