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Peter Lewis Shinnie (January 18, 1915 in London – July 9, 2007 in Calgary) was a British archaeologist and Nubiologist. He was the author of Meroe: A Civilization of the Sudan (1967). He was awarded the Order of the Two Niles in 2004.

Works

• Medieval Nubia (1954)
• Excavations at Soba (1955)
• Ghazali, a monastery in the northern Sudan 1961, concerning the Monastery in Ghazali
• Meroë: A civilization of the Sudan (1967)
• The African Iron Age (1971)
• Debeira West, a mediaeval Nubian town (1978)
• The capital of Kush (1980)
• Archaeology of Gonja, Ghana: Excavations at Daboya (1989)
• Ancient Nubia (1995)
• Early Asante (1995)

Biography

• A personal memoir by P. L. Shinnie
• Reminiscences of an archeologist in the Sudan by P. L. Shinnie
• Peter Lewis Shinnie 1915-2007 by Nicholas David
• Peter Lewis Shinnie 1915-2007 by Krzysztof A. Grzymski

References

1. ^ Clark, Peter (30 October 2007). "Peter Shinnie". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
2. David, Nicholas (1 June 2008). "Peter Lewis Shinnie 1915–2007". African Archaeological Review. 25 (1): 125–129. doi:10.1007/s10437-008-9019-z. ISSN 1572-9842. S2CID 162296651.
3. Pigott, Peter (16 February 2009). Canada in Sudan: War Without Borders. Dundurn. ISBN 978-1-77070-514-2. Archived from the original on 22 March 2023. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
4. "Professor Peter Shinnie". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Archived from the original on 13 March 2023. Retrieved 13 March 2023.

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