Draft:Kay Prag

Draft: Dr Kay Prag FSA[1] is an archaeologist specialising in the southern Levant and is notable for posthumously publishing Kathleen Kenyon's excavations in the Old City at Jerusalem[2].

Kay Prag
FSA
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Alma materUniversity of Oxford (PhD)
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ThesisA study of the intermediate Early Bronze-Middle Bronze Age in Transjordan, Syria and Lebanon (1972)
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DisciplineArchaeology
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InstitutionsUniversity of Manchester


Education

Dr Prag undertook her doctoral research at the University of Oxford, and was awarded her PhD in 1972.

Career

She gave the prestigious British Academy Schweich Lecture in Biblical Archaeology in 2016[3][4]

Dr Kay Prag participated in Kenyon’s Jerusalem excavation, and now works on the publication. She has led field surveys in Jordan and Lebanon, directed excavations at Tell Iktanu in Jordan, and edited Levant for many years. Her principal publications concern the later third millennium in the Near East, and Jerusalem. [this paragraph cut and pasted from british academy lecture page and needs editing]

Her colleague Dr Kay Prag, who worked with her in the Middle East in the 1960s, recalled that ‘she could be devastating, when she felt the situation merited it’[5]

She was an honorary lecture in Archaeology at the University of Manchester https://hummedia.manchester.ac.uk/schools/salc/brochures/2017/masters/archaeology.pdf

Personal Life

Dr Prag is married to Dr (Andrew) John Prag[6].

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References

  1. ^ "Dr Kay Prag". Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 2026-02-04.
  2. ^ "Collections Online | British Museum". www.britishmuseum.org. Archived from the original on 2021-04-14. Retrieved 2026-02-04.
  3. ^ "Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology". The British Academy. Retrieved 2026-02-04.
  4. ^ "Re-excavating Jerusalem: Archival archaeology". The British Academy. Retrieved 2026-02-04.
  5. ^ "Six Groundbreaking Female Archaeologists". English Heritage. Retrieved 2026-02-04.
  6. ^ "Prag, (Andrew) John (Nicholas Warburg) 1941- | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2026-02-04.



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