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David Oates
David Oates was a British archaeologist of ancient Mesopotamia. He worked with Max Mallowan at Nimrud, directed the excavations at Tell al-Rimah in northern Iraq in the 1960s, and with his wife Joan Oates led the long-running excavations at Tell Brak in Syria from 1976. He was director of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq and a Fellow of the British Academy.
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