Dorothy 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.

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.

In 1912, she married fellow archaeologist Ernest J. H. Mackay, with whom she often collaborated in later years. 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. "Beads from Taxila". Antiquity, 18(72). pp. 201–204. 1944. "Ancient River Beds and Dead Cities". Antiquity, 19(75). pp. 135–144. 1945. "The jewellery of Palmyra and its significance." Iraq 11(2). pp. 160–187. 1949. Beirut: American University of Beirut Mudun al-‘Iraq al-qadima. Transl. by Y.J. Miscony. Baghdad: ʻAhd Bagdad. 1952