| Description | Reports, notes and memoranda concerning Wheeler's campaign to preserve Libyan antiquities, including:
Typescript report, 'Damage to Antiquities in Tripolitania', c1943.
Typescript report by Major John Ward-Perkins, 'Report on Conservation of Antiquities in Tripolitania', c1943.
Draft typescript report by Wheeler, 'The Antiquities of Libya', 1943. |
| AdminHistory | Wheeler spent the early years of the Second world War in Britain and in north Africa, raising and training the 48th light anti-aircraft battery which swelled into the 42nd Royal Artillery regiment. During 1943 Wheeler and Major John Ward-Perkins and Mortimer Wheeler campaigned to preserve various historic sites in Libya. |