Daniel T. Potts

Potts graduated from Harvard University (B.A. in 1975 and Ph.D. in 1980) and worked at the Free University of Berlin (1981–86) and the University of Copenhagen (1980–81, 1986–1991). From 1991 to 2012 he was the Edwin Cuthbert Hall Professor of Middle Eastern Archaeology at the University of Sydney. Currently he is the Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Archeology and History at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World of New York University.{{Cite web |url=https://isaw.nyu.edu/people/faculty/isaw-faculty/daniel-t-potts |title=Daniel T. Potts |access-date=May 16, 2024 |publisher=Institute for the Study of the Ancient World}} He also previously worked in Iran, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.{{Cite web |url=https://montgomery.dartmouth.edu/daniel-t-potts |title=Daniel T. Potts |date=January 5, 2017 |access-date=May 16, 2024 |publisher=Dartmouth College}}

Potts is an expert in the history of the ancient Near East. He primarily focused his research in the history of Iran from ancient times to the pre-modern era and the history of the Arabian Peninsula.

Potts also is a co-editor of The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East,{{Cite news |url=https://isaw.nyu.edu/news/dan-potts-co-edits-oxford-history-of-the-ancient-near-east |title=ISAW Professor Dan Potts Co-Edits The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East |access-date=May 16, 2024 |publisher=Institute for the Study of the Ancient World |date=May 2, 2023 |last1=Wichert |first1=Lily }} one of the most authoritative series of the collective works about the subject.{{Cite journal |title=Book Review: [The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East. Vol. 3, From the Hyksos to the Late Second Millennium BC Edited by Karen Radner, Nadine Moeller, and D. T. Potts. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2022. Pp. 1000. ISBN: 9780190687601 (hardcover) $150.] |journal=American Journal of Archaeology |last=Middleton |first=Guy D. |issue=4 |volume=127 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |doi=10.1086/727123 |year=2023 |publication-place=Chicago |language=en |issn=0002-9114 |eissn=1939-828X}}

• {{Cite book |title=Persia Portrayed: Envoys to the West, 1600-1842 |last=Potts |first=Daniel T. |publisher=Mage Publishers |year=2022 |isbn=978-1-949-44539-8 |language=en}}
• {{Cite book |title=Agreeable News from Persia: Iran in the Colonial and Early Republican American Press, 1712-1848. 3 volume set |publisher=Springer VS |year=2022 |isbn=978-3-658-36032-0 |location=Wiesbaden |language=en |url={{Google books|plainurl=y|id=HEAAAQBAJ|page=1}} |editor-last=Potts |editor-first=Daniel T. |series=Universal- und kulturhistorische Studien / Studies in Universal and Cultural History |doi=10.1007/978-3-658-36032-0 |issn=2524-3799 |via=Google Books |url-access=limited }}
• {{Cite book |title=Nomadism in Iran: From Antiquity to the Modern Era |last=Potts |first=Daniel T. |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-199-33079-9 |location=New York |language=en |url={{Google books|plainurl=y|id=8c3QAgAAQBAJ|page=1}} |doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199330799.001.0001 |via=Google Books |url-access=limited }}
• {{Cite book |title=Mesopotamia, Iran and Arabia from the Seleucids to the Sasanians |last=Potts |first=Daniel T. |publisher=Ashgate Publishing |year=2010 |isbn=978-1-409-40535-1 |location=Farnham |language=en |series=Variorum Collected Studies Series |volume=962}}
• {{Cite book |title=Ancient Magan: The Secrets of Tell Abraq |last=Potts |first=Daniel T. |publisher=Trident Press, Ltd. |year=2000 |isbn=978-1-900-72431-9 |location=Winnipeg, MB |language=en |url=https://www.ancientportsantiques.com/wp-content/uploads/Documents/PLACES/IndOc-Gulf/Magan-Potts2000.pdf |series=In Depth Adventure Guides |via=Ancient Coastal Settlements, Ports and Harbours {{Open access}}}}
• {{Cite book |title=The Archaeology of Elam: Formation and Transformation of an Ancient Iranian State |last=Potts |first=Daniel T. |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1999 |isbn=978-0-511-32330-0 |location=Cambridge |language=en |url=https://e-l.unifi.it/pluginfile.php/664124/mod_resource/content/2/Testi%20in%20pdf/Potts%20DT%201999%20The%20Archaeology%20of%20Elam%209780521563581.pdf |series=Cambridge World Archaeology |doi=10.1017/CBO9780511489617 |via=Università degli Studi di Firenze {{Open access}}}}
• {{Cite book |title=Mesopotamian Civilization: The Material Foundations |last=Potts |first=Daniel T. |publisher=Cornell University Press |year=1997 |isbn=978-0-801-43339-9 |location=Ithaka, N. Y. |language=en |url={{Google books|plainurl=y|id=OdZS9gBu4KwC|page=1}} |series=Athlone Publications in Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies |via=Google Books |url-access=limited}}
• {{Cite book |title=The Pre-Islamic Coinage of Eastern Arabia |last=Potts |first=Daniel T. |publisher=Museum Tusculanum Press |year=1991 |isbn=978-8-772-89156-9 |location=Coppenhagen |language=en |url={{Google books|plainurl=y|id=_AA1NyZKzx0C|page=1}} |series=Carsten Niebuhr Institut København: CNI Publications |volume=14 |via=Google Books |url-access=limited}}
• {{Cite book |title=The Arabian Gulf in Antiquity: From Prehistory to the Fall of the Achaemenid Empire |last=Potts |first=Daniel T. |publisher=Clarendon Press |year=1992 |isbn=978-0-198-14390-1 |location=Oxford |language=en |series=Etudes bibliques |volume=I}}
• {{Cite book |title=The Arabian Gulf in Antiquity: From Alexander the Great to the Coming of Islam |last=Potts |first=Daniel T. |publisher=Clarendon Press |year=1990 |isbn=978-0-198-14391-8 |location=Oxford |language=en |series=ACLS Humanities E-Book |volume=II}}
• {{Cite book |title=Miscellanea Hasaitica |last=Potts |first=Daniel T. |publisher=Museum Tusculanum Press |year=1989 |isbn=978-8-772-89068-5 |location=Coppenhagen |language=en |url={{Google books|plainurl=y|id=ffNlxjgHpQIC|page=1}} |series=Carsten Niebuhr Institut København: CNI publications |volume=9 |via=Google Books |url-access=limited}}

• {{Cite book |title=The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Iran |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2013 |isbn=978-0-19-973330-9 |location=Oxford and New York City |language=en |url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordhandbookof0000unse_s1j3 |editor-last=Potts |editor-first=Daniel T. |doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199733309.001.0001 |via=the Internet Archive |url-access=registration}}
• {{Cite book |title=A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East |publisher=Wiley-Blackwell |year=2012 |isbn=978-1-405-18988-0 |location=Chichester |language=en |url=https://archive.org/details/ACompanionToTheArchaeologyOfTheAncientNearEast |editor-last=Potts |editor-first=Daniel T. |series=Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World |volume=94 |doi=10.1002/9781444360790 |via=the Internet Archive {{Open access}}}}

;The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East

• {{Cite book |title=The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East: From the Beginnings to Old Kingdom Egypt and the Dynasty of Akkad |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2020 |isbn=978-0-190-68785-4 |location=New York |language=en |editor-last=Radner |editor-first=Karen |editor-link=Karen Radner |volume=1 |editor-last2=Moeller |editor-first2=Nadine |editor-link2=Nadine Moeller |editor-last3=Potts |editor-first3=Daniel T.}}
• {{Cite book |title=The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East: From the End of the Third Millennium BC to the Fall of Babylon |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2022 |isbn=978-0-190-68760-1 |location=New York |language=en |editor-last=Radner |editor-first=Karen |volume=2 |editor-last2=Moeller |editor-first2=Nadine |editor-last3=Potts |editor-first3=Daniel T.}}
• {{Cite book |title=The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East: From the Hyksos to the Late Second Millennium BC |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2022 |isbn=978-0-190-68757-1 |location=New York |language=en |editor-last=Radner |editor-first=Karen |volume=3 |editor-last2=Moeller |editor-first2=Nadine |editor-last3=Potts |editor-first3=Daniel T.}}
• {{Cite book |title=The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East: The Age of Assyria |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2023 |isbn=978-0-190-68763-2 |location=New York |language=en |editor-last=Radner |editor-first=Karen |volume=4 |editor-last2=Moeller |editor-first2=Nadine |editor-last3=Potts |editor-first3=Daniel T.}}
• {{Cite book |title=The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East: The Age of Persia |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2023 |isbn=978-0-190-68766-3 |location=New York |language=en |editor-last=Radner |editor-first=Karen |volume=5 |editor-last2=Moeller |editor-first2=Nadine |editor-last3=Potts |editor-first3=Daniel T.}}

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