Dorothy Mary Mackay
Born
Dorothy Mary Simmons

(1881-11-11)11 November 1881
Croydon, England
Died8 February 1953(1953-02-08) (aged 71)
Beaconsfield, England
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Archaeologist, museum curator
SpouseErnest J. H. Mackay

Dorothy Mary Mackay (née Simmons, 11 November 1881–8 February 1953) was a British archaeologist who worked in Egypt, Iraq, and sites of the Indus Valley civilisation.[1] 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.[2]

In 1912, Dorothy 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.[3]

Books published

  • "Ancient Cities of Iraq. A Practical Handbook". Baghdad: K. Mackenzie 1926
  • Mohenjo-daro. Bombay: Indian State Railways Publicity Department 1929
  • Mackay, Dorothy Mary Simmons (1951). "A Guide to the Archaeological Collections in the University Museum". Beirut: American University of Beirut 1951
  • Mudun al-‘Iraq al-qadima. Transl. by Y.J. Miscony. Baghdad: ʻAhd Bagdad 1952

References

  1. Thornton, Amara. "Discovering Dorothy", https://www.readingroomnotes.com/home/discovering-dorothy
  2. Auji, Hala. "Tales of Tiles: Shifting Narratives of a Museum’s Islamic Artifacts", Bulletin de correspondance hellénique moderne et contemporain 3 (2020), 1–34, https://journals.openedition.org/bchmc/604#
  3. Kaczanowicz, Marta. "Dorothy Mackay: A Forgotten Female Pioneer in Archaeology", Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo 11/3 (2023), 71–80, https://www.muzeologia.sk/index_htm_files/MKD_3_23_Kaczanovicz.pdf
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