| Dorothy Mary Mackay | |
| Caption: | Dorothy Mackay, Archeologist |
| Birth Name: | Dorothy Mary Simmons |
| Birth Date: | 11 November 1881 |
| Birth Place: | Croydon, England |
| Death Place: | Beaconsfield, England |
| Education: | University of London |
| Alma Mater: | University College London |
| Occupation: | Archaeologist, museum curator |
| Nationality: | British |
| Spouse: | Ernest J. H. Mackay |
Dorothy Mary Mackay (née Simmons, 11 November 1881 – 8 February 1953)[1] was a British archaeologist who worked in Egypt, Iraq, and sites of the Indus Valley civilisation.[2]
Mackey was born Dorothy May Simmons at Croydon in 1881. She studied Greek and French at the University of London, graduating in 1902. She continued taking classes in botany, calculus, geology and zoology, gaining enough credits to graduate with a degree in zoology by 1909.
She was a member of the Croydon Branch of the Women's Social and Political Union.[3]
In 1912, she married fellow archaeologist Ernest J. H. Mackay, with whom she often collaborated in later years.
In 1940, Mackey was appointed assistant keeper at the Department of Antiquities, Ashmolean Museum in Oxford,[4] and between 1948–1951 she acted as curator at the Archaeological Museum of the American University of Beirut.[5]