In 1913, Lord Kitchener requested the services of an archaeologist from the British Museum to carry out a survey in southern Palestine. The outcome was that Leonard Woolley and T.E. Lawrence were employed to record archaeological remains alongside military surveyors in the Gaza region, through the Negev Desert to southern Jordan. In a mere six weeks, during January and February 1914, the two archaeologists covered large tracts of the desert wilderness studying monuments of numerous periods from the prehistoric to the Islamic. By the end of 1914, the work was written up and ready for publication by the Palastine Exploration Fund in 1915.