Charles Allen Burney (1930 – 10 November 2024) was a British archaeologist known for his discovery of Urartian sites in Turkey in the 1950s and his excavations at Yanik Tepe, Tabriz, Iran from 1960 to 1962.

Early life

Burney was born in 1930 and educated at

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and

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.Burney, Charles A. & David Marshall Lang. (2001) ''The peoples of the hills: Ancient Ararat and Caucasus''. London: Phoenix Press.

Career

Burney was a scholar and fellow of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara from 1954–56 when he carried out archaeological investigations in Turkey and later in Iran. He is particularly known for his identification and sketch surveying of numerous Urartian sites during field expeditions made to the

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region in the mid 1950s and his excavations at Yanik Tepe,

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, Iran from 1960 to 1962. Yanik Tepe is a multi-period site northwest of

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with nine phases, including some of the earliest settlements in the region.Yanik Tepe, Tabriz, Iran.
Oxford Index. Retrieved 27 September 2015. A collection of studies in his honour, ''A View from the Highlands &c.'', was published by Peeters in 2004.''A View from the Highlands: Archaeological Studies in Honour of Charles Burney''.
Peeters Publishers. Retrieved 27 September 2015. Burney has contributed articles to ''

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'' and ''

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''. He was senior lecturer at the

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Selected publications

*''The peoples of the hills: Ancient Ararat and Caucasus''.

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, London, 1971. (With

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) (History of Civilization) *''From village to empire: An introduction to Near Eastern Archaeology''. Phaidon, Oxford, 1997. *''Historical dictionary of the Hittites''.

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, Lanham, 2004. (Historical dictionaries of ancient civilizations and historical eras, no. 14.) (Republished by Scarecro Press as ''The A to Z of the Hittites'', 2010.)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Burney, Charles A. 1930 births 2024 deaths People educated at Eton College Alumni of King's College, Cambridge British archaeologists Academics of the Victoria University of Manchester

Early life

Career

Selected publications

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