John MacGinnis

Senior Curator, The British Museum

John MacGinnis is based in the Middle East Department of the British Museum and the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research in Cambridge. His interests are the archaeology and epigraphy of Mesopotamia in the first millennium BC. He has participated in fieldwork across the Middle East, including at the Assyrian sites of Nineveh, Nimrud, Ziyaret Tepe, Tell Masaikh and the fortress of Usu Aska in the Darband-i Rania pass in Iraqi Kurdistan.

BOOKS BY THIS CONTRIBUTOR

The Assyrian Rock Relief at Yaǧmur (Evrihan) in the Tur Abdin

John MacGinnis

This study publishes a newly discovered rock relief in the Mazıdağı Plain, at the western end of the Tur Abdin in southeastern Turkey. The preserved remains include an image of an Assyrian king, divine symbols and traces of three panels of cuneiform inscription. READ MORE

Paperback: £20.00 | eBook: £9.99

Laying the Foundations (Kurdish Edition)

ed. John MacGinnis

This book, which developed out of the British Museum’s ‘Iraq Scheme’ archaeological training programme, covers the core components for putting together and running an archaeological field programme. While the manual is oriented to the archaeology of Iraq, the approaches are no less applicable to the Middle East more widely. READ MORE

Open Access

Laying the Foundations: Manual of the British Museum Iraq Scheme Archaeological Training Programme

ed. John MacGinnis

This book, which developed out of the British Museum’s ‘Iraq Scheme’ archaeological training programme, covers the core components for putting together and running an archaeological field programme. While the manual is oriented to the archaeology of Iraq, the approaches are no less applicable to the Middle East more widely. READ MORE

Paperback: £40.00 | Open Access

أرساء الأُسس

ed. John MacGinnis

This book, which developed out of the British Museum’s ‘Iraq Scheme’ archaeological training programme, covers the core components for putting together and running an archaeological field programme. While the manual is oriented to the archaeology of Iraq, the approaches are no less applicable to the Middle East more widely. READ MORE

Open Access

Ziyaret Tepe: Exploring the Anatolian frontier of the Assyrian Empire

John MacGinnis

This unique record charts the important archaeological finds over 18 years at Ziyaret Tepe in southeast Turkey - site of Tushan, a provincial capital of the Assyrian Empire dating back to the 9th century BC. Informative, scholarly, copiously illustrated, personal and extremely readable, this groundbreaking book sets a new benchmark in the field. READ MORE

Paperback: £16.95

The Archaeology of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Adjacent Regions

ed. John MacGinnis

Conference proceedings presenting the first opportunity for leading figures in the burgeoning area of archaeological research in the Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq to gather and present all the key new projects which are revolutionising our understanding of the region. READ MORE

Paperback: £80.00 | eBook: £16.00

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