Kuhrt, Amélie, 1944-2023

By Professor Pierre Briant FBA

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30 Jul 2025

Amélie Kuhrt, eminent historian of the Ancient Near East, and more specifically renowned for her teaching at University College London, for actively contributing to organising the Achaemenid History Workshops and for her many leading publications on the Achaemenid Empire and Achaemenid and Hellenistic Babylonia, died on 2 January 2023, after living for several years with Parkinson’s disease.

Posted to Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy, 22

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