Did you know that the life story of one of Britain’s most popular heroes can be told by Transjordan stamps? Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence, or as he is affectionately called ‘Lawrence of Arabia’, was a trained archaeologist who participated in numerous expeditions and excavations throughout his life. But his trip to the Middle East was considered the most significant, occurring in conjunction with the onset of the First World War. He was a well-known archeologist at that time, and was thus commissioned to lead the military survey of the Negev Desert.
