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Nancy Sandars
British archaeologist and prehistorian
Nancy Katharine SandarsFSA FBA (29 June 1914 – 20 November 2015) was a British archaeologist and prehistorian.
As an independent scholar, she wrote a number of books and a popular version of the Epic of Gilgamesh.[1][2]
Early life and education
Sandars was born on 29 June 1914 in The Manor House, Little Tew, Oxfordshire, England.[1] Her parents were Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Sandars and Gertrude Sandars (née Phipps).[3][4] Her father was a British Army officer who had served in the Boer War and during the First World War, and her mother served with the Voluntary Aid Detachment.[1] Through her mother, she was a descendant of James Ramsay, the 18th Century anti-slavery campaigner.[3]
Sandars was educated at home by a governess up to the age of twelve.[4] She was then educated at Luckley School, then an all-girls independent school in Ber