The Fifteenth Annual Roger Moorey Lecture

The lecture is entitled "Where did the Persian Kings live in Babylon?". Dr Curtis, Keeper of the Middle East Department at the British Museum from 1989 to 2011, is presently Chief Executive Officer of the Iran Heritage Foundation, President of the British Institute for the Study of Iraq, and a Trustee of the Honor Frost Foundation. He specialises in the archaeology and history of Iraq and Iran c. 1000-330 BC. 

The Annual Roger Moorey Lectures are held in honour of Dr Moorey, British archaeologist and historian of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East. He was the former Keeper of Antiquities at the Ashmolean Museum and has served as Vicegerent of Wolfson College. 

The Fifteenth Annual Roger Moorey Lecture
Date: 29 May 2019, 17:30
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