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Dr Joan Oates FBA

Archaeology of the Ancient Near East Archaeology Mesopotamia & Babylon

Elected 2004

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year of birth: 1928
Year of death: 2023
Year elected: 2004
Sections: Archaeology

Last post

Senior Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge

Past appointments

University of Cambridge Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge

1995 -

University of Cambridge Senior Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge

1995 -

University of Cambridge Lecturer in History and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East

1989 - 1995

Girton College University of Cambridge Fellow, Tutor and Lecturer

1971 - 1995

Other Foreign Institutions Metropolitan Musem of Art, NYC

1954 - 1956

Archaeologist working in Iraq and Syria

1951 -

Publications

Babylon 1979, 1986, 2005

Nimrud, an Assyrian City Revealed 2001

Excavations at Tell Brak (4 volumes) 1997, 2001, and in preparation

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