Margaret Munn-Rankin

Margaret Munn-Rankin
Born Joan Margaret Munn-Rankin
(1913-07-29)29 July 1913
Died 28 July 1981(1981-07-28) (aged 67)
Nationality British
Academic work
Discipline Archaeology and history
Sub discipline Ancient Near East
Assyriology
Institutions Newnham College, Cambridge
University of Cambridge

Joan Margaret Munn-Rankin (29 July 1913 – 28 July 1981), known as Margaret Munn-Rankin and published as J. M. Munn-Rankin, was a British archaeologist, historian, and academic, who specialised in the ancient Near East. From 1949 until her death in 1981, she was a Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, and a lecturer in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge. In addition to her extensive teaching, she was also a field archaeologist and was involved in a number of excavations including Nimrud and Tell Rifaat.[1][2][3]

Selected works

References

  1. Lesko, Barbara S. "Margaret Munn-Rankin 1913-1981" (pdf). Breaking Ground. Brown University. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
  2. Postgate, J. N. (1983). "Margaret Munn-Rankin (29 July 1913 – 28 July 1981) on JSTOR". Archiv für Orientforschung. 29: 333. JSTOR 41661946.
  3. "Editorial". Iraq. British Institute for the Study of Iraq. 43 (2): i. 1981. JSTOR 4200138.
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