British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Dr John Curtis
Keeper, Department of the Ancient Near East, The British Museum
Year Elected: 2003
He is a scholar of the archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Iran and Central Asia, who has published on metal-working, Assyrian material culture, the archaeology of Iran and the history of excavation in the area. He has excavated in Iran, Iraq and Syria and is currently working at Sidon, Lebanon.