Thomas Kiely

Curator - Cyprus Digitisation Project

Cyprus Collection-Neolithic and Bronze Age to Roman

Department: Greek and Roman Antiquities

Telephone: +44 (0)20 7323 8300
Email: tkiely @ thebritishmuseum.ac.uk

Thomas Kiely studied archaeology and ancient history at Liverpool University. He completed a PhD in the archaeology of Bronze and Iron Age Cypriot settlements in the Institute of Archaeology, Oxford in 2005 under Dr Susan Sherratt. During this time he also tutored undergraduates and visiting students in Late Bronze Age, Homeric and Classical Archaeology, in addition to undertaking other educational and research work. Thomas joined the British Museum in 2006 as a curator to continue the Cyprus Digitisation Project.

His research interests include: the settlement topography of Cyprus in the second and earlier first millennia BC; the cultural relationship of Cyprus, the Aegean and the Levant in the Late Bronze Age and early Iron Age; early Phoenician and Greek settlement in the Eastern Mediterranean; the relationship between iconography and ethnic and cultural identity.

Current British Museum projects

Collection management of the long-term storage of the Cyprus collection

Editing a volume of Cypriot studies in honour of former curator Veronica Tatton-Brown.  

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