num_pages: 387
description: Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler (1890-1976) was a British archaeologist who supervised excavations in England, France (Brittany and Normandy) India, Pakistan, and Wales. He majored in classics at University College in London, and had participated in an archaeological excavation, and joined a government survey of historic buildings, when the First World War began and he joined the British army.
language: English
title: Mortimer Wheeler: adventurer in archaeology
publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson