Dr. Michael Seymour
Michael Seymour is Associate Curator in the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He completed his PhD at University College London and worked at the British Museum in the Department of the Middle East before joining The Met in 2011. His research has focused on the later reception and representation of ancient Southwestern Asia, particularly the city of Babylon, the early history of archaeology in Iraq, and Mesopotamian art of the first millennium BCE and early centuries CE.
Books by Michael Seymour
Tracing Transitions and Connecting Communities in the Archaeology of Southwest Asia
Papers in Honour of Roger Matthews
Edited by Claudia Glatz, Mónica Palmero Fernández, Amy Richardson & Michael Seymour | 2025
This book features a collection of papers produced in honour of Roger Matthews, Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Reading. Roger previously taught at UCL’s Institute of Archaeology (2001–2010), before which he…
