Palestine Exploration Fund
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The Palestine Exploration Fund is a British society founded in 1865 by a group of Biblical archaeologists. It conducted many early excavations of biblical and postbiblical sites around the Levant.
Among the most noteworthy individuals associated with the Fund were Charles Warren, Horatio Kitchener, Edward Henry Palmer, George Grove, T.E. Lawrence, Kathleen Kenyon, and Arthur Stanley.
External links
- [Palestine Exploration Fund] - official web site
- [The PEF map published in 1880]
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