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Courtesy Cyrus and Constance Gordon
All’s quiet? After his first seasons of excavating in Palestine, Gordon drove across the desert to Baghdad, Iraq. From there he took a train to Mosul, where he excavated at Tell Billa, near Nineveh. It was evidently not entirely peaceful there! This photograph from February 1933 shows soldiers in machine-gun squads, dispatched from Mosul to maintain order.