Beatrice de Cardi

Beatrice Eileen de Cardi (5 June 1914 – 5 July 2016) was a British archaeologist. He worked in the study of the Persian Gulf and the Baluchistan region of Pakistan. She was president of the British Foundation for the Study of Arabia, and she was Secretary of the Council for British Archaeology from 1949 to 1973.

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Other websites
Making history: the world's oldest archaeologist (Independent Online)
"Better than Indiana Jones", a BBC short clip.
 "Leading TV historians pay tribute to “the world’s oldest archaeologist”", Heritage Daily, 25 February 2014

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