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Helen McDonald she/her

Head Registrar

Research Interests

Mesopotamian Archaeology

Helen Mcdonald headshot

About

Helen McDonald graduated from the University of Cambridge (Girton College) with a BA in Archaeology of Western Asia. She was Secretary-Librarian of the British Archaeological Expedition to Iraq/British School of Archaeology of Iraq based in Baghdad, Iraq from 1989 to 1990 and was involved with the excavations at Tell Brak (Syria) from 1987 to 2004 and was research assistant (then associate) on the Tell Brak publication project. She joined the staff of the ISAC Museum in 2005 as assistant registrar and was promoted to registrar in 2007.

Select Publications

Books

  • David Oates, Joan Oates, and Helen McDonald. Excavations at Tell Brak, Vol. 1: The Mitanni and Old Babylonian Periods. Excavations at Tell Brak 1. Cambridge and London: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and British Institute of Archaeology in Iraq, 1997.
  • David Oates, Joan Oates, and Helen McDonald. Excavations at Tell Brak, Vol. 2: Nagar in the Third Millennium BC. Excavations at Tell Brak 2. Cambridge and London: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and British Institute of Archaeology in Iraq, 2001.

Articles

  • Caroline Steele, Helen McDonald, Roger Matthews, and Jeremy Black. “Impact of Empire: Later Third-millennium Investigations: the Late Early Dynastic and Akkadian Periods.” In Excavations at Tell Brak, Vol. 4: Exploring an Upper Mesopotamian Regional Centre, 1994-1996, edited by Roger Matthews, pp. 193–269. Cambridge and London: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 2003.
  • Helen McDonald and Nicholas Jackson. “A House on the Hill: Second-Millennium Investigations: The Middle Bronze Age.” In Excavations at Tell Brak, Vol. 4: Exploring an Upper Mesopotamian Regional Centre, 1994–1996, edited by Roger Matthews, pp. 271–319. Cambridge and London: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 2003.