Ernest John Henry Mackay (5 July 1880 – 2 October 1943) was a British archeologist from

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known for his excavations and studies of

Mohenjo-daro Mohenjo-daro (; sd, موئن جو دڙو'', ''meaning 'Mound of the Dead Men';Indus Valley civilisation The Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC), also known as the Indus Civilisation was a Bronze Age civilisation in the northwestern regions of South Asia, lasting from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE, and in its mature form 2600 BCE to 1900& ...

Early life

Ernest John Henry Mackay was from Bristol and attended

Bristol Grammar School Bristol Grammar School (BGS) is a 4–18 mixed, independent day school in Bristol, England. It was founded in 1532 by Royal Charter for the teaching of 'good manners and literature', endowed by wealthy Bristol merchants Robert and Nicholas Thorn ...

and Bristol University securing BA, MA and DLitt. He married Dorothy Mary Simmons in 1912, who was an anthropologist and they had one son. Between 1907 and 1912 Mackay carried out archaeological excavations in Egypt and then spent three years on a photographic survey of the Theban Tombs."Obituary." Times ondon, England5 Oct. 1943: 6. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 16 Nov. 2014. During the

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Mackay served as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps in Egypt and Palestine with the

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, in 1919 he was a member of an Army Commission for the survey of ancient monuments in Palestine and Syria. From 1919 to 1922 he was Custodian of Antiquities for the Palestine government.

Indus valley civilization

Mackay is well known for his excavations at Mohenjo-daro which was at its peak between 2500 BC and 1900 BC. He did major excavations at this site from 1926 to 1931 and published detailed site report during 1936-37, which was published during 1942. He also did planning of excavation of

Chanhudaro Chanhu-daro is an archaeological site belonging to the Indus Valley civilization. The site is located south of Mohenjo-daro, in Sindh, Pakistan. The settlement was inhabited between 4000 and 1700 BCE, and is considered to have been a cen ...

, along with W.Norman Brown and visited Chanhudaro in 1935-36 along with his wife.

Books published

* Chanhu-daro excavation, 1935-36. Pub. June 1942 * Indus Civilisation * City of Shepherd Kings and Ancient Gaza V (British School Archaeology in Egypt). With W.M.Flinders Petrie *Further Excavations At Mohenjo-daro

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mackay, Ernest J. H. 1880 births 1943 deaths English archaeologists Royal Army Medical Corps officers Scientists from Bristol People educated at Bristol Grammar School Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Alumni of the University of Bristol British Army personnel of World War I Administrators of Palestine