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Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Mackay (née Simmons), Dorothy Mary
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- Mackay, Dorothy
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Description area
Dates of existence
1881-1953
History
11 November 1881 - 8 February 1953. British archaeologist who worked in Egypt, Iraq, and sites of the Indus Valley civilisation. In 1940, she was appointed an assistant keeper at the Department of Antiquities, Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, and between 1948-1951 she acted as a curator at the Archaeological Museum of the American University of Beirut. In 1912, she married the archaeologist Ernest J. H. Mackay, with whom she often cooperated in later years. She was a member of the Croydon Branch of the Women's Social and Political Union.