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John Garstang (
May 5,
1876 –
September 12,
1956,
Beirut) was a
British archaeologist of the ancient
Near East, especially
Anatolia and the southern
Levant.
John Garstang was born to Dr. Walter Garstang of
Blackburn and was the younger brother of
Walter Garstang, a marine biologist and zoologist. He was educated at Queen Elizabeth's, Blackburn; and
Jesus College, Oxford. Following undergraduate studies in mathematics at Oxford, his attentions turned to archaeology.
From 1897 to 1908 he conducted excavations at Roman sites in Britain, Egypt, Nubia, Asia Minor and North Syria; in the Sudan and Meroe between 1909 and 1914, then in Palestine at Askalon (1920–1921) and at
Jericho (Tell es-Sultan) in 1930–1936.
He was professor of archaeology at the
University of Liverpool from 1907 to 1941.
He served as the Director of the Department of Antiquities in the British Mandate of Palestine between
1920 and
1926, as well as filling the position of Head of the
British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem (1919–1926). He taught at the Egyptology section of the Faculty of Arts when this was established in the 1920's. One of his students was Dr Pahor Labib, late Director of the Coptic Museum, Cairo.
Later, in
1947, Garstang founded the
British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, acting as its first director (he was succeeded by
Seton Lloyd).
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