Beatrice de Cardi | |
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Born | London, England | 5 June 1914
Died | 5 July 2016[1] London, England | (aged 102)
Nationality | British |
Title | Secretary of the Council for British Archaeology (1949–73) |
Awards | Officer of the Order of the British Empire (1973) Burton Memorial Medal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1993) Gold Medal of the Society of Antiquaries of London (2014) |
Academic background | |
Education | St Paul's Girls' School |
Alma mater | University College London |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Archaeologist |
Sub-discipline | Specialist in the archeology of the Persian Gulf, Balochistan, Pakistan and Qatar |
Beatrice Eileen de Cardi, OBE, FSA, FBA (5 June 1914 – 5 July 2016) was a British archaeologist, specializing in the study of the Persian Gulf and the Baluchistan region of Pakistan. She was president of the British Foundation for the Study of Arabia,[2] and she was Secretary of the Council for British Archaeology from 1949 to 1973.[3] At the end of her career, she was the world's oldest practising archaeologist.[4]
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