Author: Mary Chubb
Born: 22 March 1903
Died: 22 January 2003
Bio: Mary Chubb was a British author and archaeologist. She has been described as "the first professional excavation administrator" and also as an "accidental archaeologist". She wrote a number of books on archaeology for the general public and also children's books on people of the ancient world. She also branched out into journalism, writing for magazines such *Punch* and for the BBC.

Her two main books were published in the 1950s: *Nefertiti Lived Here* (1954) and *City in the Sand* (1957). These books are about her involvement in the 1930s excavations of Tell el-Amarna in Egypt, and of Ur and Eshnunna in Iraq. They were republished in the 1990s with new introductions and added epilogues.