Dr Kay Prag studied Near Eastern archaeology at the Universities of Sydney, London, and Oxford. She was a field supervisor on Kathleen Kenyon's Jerusalem excavation in the 1960s, has curated the archive since 1980, and works on the publication of the final reports. As well as research and teaching, she has led field surveys in Jordan and Lebanon, directed excavations at Tell Iktanu in Jordan, and was Honorary Editor of the journal Levant for many years. Her principal publications concern the later third millennium in the Near East, and Jerusalem.