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Ernest John Henry Mackay (5 July 1880 – 2 October 1943) was a British archeologist from Bristol known for his excavations and studies of Mohenjo-daro and other sites belonging to the Indus Valley civilisation.




Early life


Ernest John Henry Mackay was born in Bristol. He had attended Bristol Grammar School and Bristol University securing BA, MA and DLitt.
He married Dorothy Mackay (née Simmons), a UCL graduate with a BA degree and a BSc degree in Zoology, in 1912. They had two sons. Dorothy frequently took part in her husband's excavations and published extensively on her own.
Between 1907 and 1912, Mackay carried out archaeological excavations in Egypt and then spent three years on a photographic survey of the Theban Tombs.
During the First World War, Mackay served as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps in Egypt and Palestine with the Imperial Camel Corps. 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 (during 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, along with W.Norman Brown and visited Chanhudaro in 1935-36 along with his wife.




Books


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




Article


E.J.H. Mackay (1920). "Observations on a megalithic building at Bet Sawir (Palestine)". Journal of the Palestine Oriental Society. 1: 95–102.




Death


He had died on 2 October, 1943 on age of 63 years in London, England.




References






External links


Works by or about Ernest J. H. Mackay at the Internet Archive

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