John MacGinnis

Dr. MacGinnis did both his degree and his PhD at Cambridge and is a specialist in the archaeology and inscriptions of ancient Babylonia and Assyria, on which he has published extensively. He has worked on sites across the middle east including Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, Syria and Sudan as well as his work in Turkey. He has also worked in India and Pakistan. Dr. MacGinnis is a consultant for UNESCO on the cultural heritage of ancient Mesopotamia and has been Field Director of the British Expedition to Ziyaret Tepe, a provincial capital of the ancient Assyrian empire, since the commencement of the work in 2000.