Author: Mary Chubb
Mary Chubb was born in 1903. In 1928 she joined the staff of the Egypt Exploration Society in London as an under secretary, and two years later was sent out to dig at Tell el Amarna – an experience which inspired a lifelong, if unschol-arly, enthusiasm for archaeology in general and Egyptology in particular. Egypt was followed in 1933 with a season in Iraq, at the site of Tell Asmar, with the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, and a short spell in the United States.
Mary Chubb first turned her hand to writing and broadcasting in the 1940s, contributing to Punch and working with the BBC. Nefertiti Lived Here first appeared in 1954, followed by City in the Sand, a colourful account of her experiences of dig life in Iraq.
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