Sir Charles Leonard Woolley discovered the Disk of Enheduanna, along with many other artifacts, on his famous expedition to UR in 1927.
The British Museum and Penn Museum formed a partnership to excavate at Ur and chose British archeologist Woolley to head the excavations. He is recognized as a pioneer in modern archeology and he is hailed for the way he was able to reconstruct the ancient history of Mesopotamia through his findings.
"At Ur, Woolley worked on a grand scale, in an era of "big digs" that no longer exists," according to Wolley's Excavations, at Ur Online, which is a collaboration site between the British Museum and the Penn Museum. "His landmark excavations would become the largest in Iraq's history, with seasons normally lasting four months a year and utilizing up to 300 workmen at one point, alongside a very small archaeological staff.
"Woolley exhumed thousands of bodies, thousands of texts, and tens of thousands of registered artifacts," the article continues. "He took over 2,000 photographs and wrote nearly 20,000 pages of notes, not including letters and reports. He investigated the massive ziggurat and uncovered temples, administrative buildings, and private houses from a range of time periods, as well as royal and private graves. His excavations revealed more about Ur than we know of most other Mesopotamian cities."
It was his groundwork that helped bring Enheduanna's role in ancient Ur back into modern times.
He was knighted in 1935 for his contributions to the discipline of archaeology and he died in 1960 at the age of 79.