Maggie Oliphant

Historian of the ancient world specialising in the civilisations of the Near East.

 

Academic

  • BA (Hons): University College London (UCL).

  • MA (Biography): The University of Buckingham.

  • SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies): Studied Akkadian under the renowned scholar Professor David Hawkins.

 

Professional

  • Served as a visiting lecturer in the Department of Education at The British Museum for several years, lecturing on the history and archaeology of the Ancient Near East. 

  • Following her time at the museum, she conducted extensive research on the 19th-century recovery of the Ancient Near East.

  • She has completed an historical and biographical study of Claudius James Rich, the first modern excavator of Babylon.

 

Publications

  1. The Atlas of the Ancient World: Charting the Great Civilizations of the Past

  2.  (1992): An extensively researched and widely used reference work.

  3. The Egyptian World

  4.  (1989): Part of the Kingfisher History Library.

  5. The Earliest Civilizations

  6. An illustrated history of early human development.

  7. The Times Ancient Civilizations

  8.  (edited by Hugh Bowden): She authored the dedicated Near Eastern section.

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maggie@maggieoliphant.com