Vronwy Hankey

Vronwy Hankey (b. Vronwy Mary Fisher) (5 September 1916 – 11 May 1998) was an archaeologist, a specialist in Near Eastern, Minoan, and Mycenaean archaeology. A Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, she also had an Honorary Fellowship at University College London and an attachment to the university's Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology.[1]

In 1941 she married Henry Hankey, the son of Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey, who became a diplomat with whom she travelled for some years before he was posted to London in 1970.[1] Hankey was the archaeologist "who identified Cyprus as the crucial link between East Mediterranean shipping in the Late Bronze Age."[2]

A scholarship, the Vronwy Hankey Memorial Fund for Aegean Studies, is available from the British School at Athens.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Peter Warren, The Independent, 23 June 1998, Vronwy Hankey
  2. ↑ Cadogan, Gerald. "Vronwy Hankey". Breaking Ground: Women in Old World Archaeology. Brown University. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
  3. ↑ "The Vronwy Hankey Memorial Fund for Aegean Studies". The British School at Athens.


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