Dorothy Mackay
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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]
- ^ Thornton, Amara. "Discovering Dorothy", https://www.readingroomnotes.com/home/discovering-dorothy
- ^ 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#
- ^ 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