Excavating the Archives: David Stronach’s fieldwork in Iran with the British Institute of Persian Studies
Excavating the Archives: David Stronach’s fieldwork in Iran with the British Institute of Persian Studies
About the speaker:
Gareth Brereton is the British Institute of Persian Studies Stronach Fellow at the University York, where he is researching the David Stronach archive. Prior to this role, Gareth was a curator at the British Museum responsible for the Mesopotamia collections. He was lead curator for the British Museum exhibition ‘I am Ashurbanipal, King of the World, King of Assyria’ and the UK touring exhibition ‘Ancient Iraq: New Discoveries’. He also co-curated an exhibition on Assyrian palace sculpture with the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. Previously, Gareth was a curator for the Ur of the Chaldees Project, which aimed to digitally reunify the archaeological material and archival resources from Sir Leonard Woolley’s excavations at the ancient city of Ur. His main research field is the funerary archaeology and material culture of the ancient Near East. He has conducted archaeological fieldwork in Iraq, Oman, Turkey, and Greece, including the British Museum’s recent excavations at Tello in southern Iraq.