MAGGIE OLIPHANT
maggie@maggieoliphant.com

Maggie is an experienced tour leader, having accompanied many groups to the ancient sites of Turkey, Crete and Jordan for Prospect Art Tours as well as leading other groups. More recently, whilst living in Italy for some years, she has taken private tours to Campania and to Rome, Florence and Venice. (testimonials)

For several years (1985-2000) Maggie lectured on the art and archaeology of Western Asia for the British Museum’s Education Department. She made accessible to the general public the museum’s collection of artefacts from the region, giving talks in the galleries and lunchtime lectures. She has also taught ancient history at adult education institutes and for university further education programmes. She is a graduate of the University of London where she studied Ancient Near Eastern history and Akkadian (University College & SOAS)

She is currently writing a biography of a 19th.century scholar, diplomat and early collector of Near Eastern antiquities.

Apart from various articles and a small Turkish cookery book, her publications include:

The Times Ancient Civilisations; Harper Collins, 2002 (Egypt & Ancient Near East)
Atlas of the Ancient World; Ebury/Marshall; 1992/rev.1999
Joint edit: The Alexander Sarcophagus 1998 (Istanbul Museum), The Mosaics of Istanbul; 1997
The Guinness Encyclopaedia of World History; 1992 (Egypt & Ancient Near East)
The Earliest Civilisations; Simon & Schuster, 1991 (young people)
The Egyptian World, Kingfisher, 1989 (young people)
Ancient Near eastern art entries Longman’s Encyclopaedia; Macmillans Encyclopaedia