Dorothy Mackay


Dorothy Mary Mackay was a British archaeologist who worked in Egypt, Iraq, and sites of the Indus Valley Civilisation.

Personal life

Mackay was born Dorothy Mary Simmons at Croydon in 1881. She studied Greek and French at the University of London, graduating in 1902. She continued taking classes in botany, calculus, geology and zoology, gaining enough credits to graduate with a degree in zoology by 1909.
She was a member of the Croydon Branch of the Women's Social and Political Union.
In 1912, she married fellow archaeologist Ernest J. H. Mackay, with whom she often collaborated in later years.

Career

In 1940, Mackay was appointed assistant keeper at the Department of Antiquities, Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, and between 1948–1951 she acted as curator at the Archaeological Museum of the American University of Beirut.

Publications

Mohenjo-daro. Bombay: Indian State Railways Publicity Department. 1929.
  • "". Antiquity, 18. pp. 201–204. 1944.
  • "Ancient River Beds and Dead Cities". Antiquity, 19. pp. 135–144. 1945.
  • "." Iraq 11. pp. 160-187. 1949.
  • Beirut: American University of BeirutMudun al-‘Iraq al-qadima. Transl. by Y.J. Miscony. Baghdad: ʻAhd Bagdad. 1952