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John Curtis

John Curtis OBE was a curator in the British Museum for more than 40 years and was Keeper of the Middle East department from 1989 until 2011. He has travelled widely and excavated in both Iraq and Iran and has published extensively on the history and archaeology of both areas. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2003 and is currently President of the British Institute for the Study of Iraq.