middlesavagery: “To get to the bottom of this deep pit was no small achievement and we were th
middlesavagery:“To get to the bottom of this deep pit was no small achievement and we were thankful to come out of it alive, except the workmen who thoroughly enjoyed the job and assumed that it was perfectly safe. (…) Looking back on this pit, we remember it with some pride as a considerable achievement and it is certainly the deepest sounding ever made anywhere in western Asia.” - Max Mallowan, recalling digging a wildly unsafe deep sounding (~27m) at Nineveh. -- source link
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