Peter Shinnie

{{Short description|British archaeologist}}

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| birth_name = Peter Lewis Shinnie

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1915|01|18}}

| birth_place = London, United Kingdom

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2007|07|09|1915|01|18}}

| death_place = Calgary, Canada

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| workplaces = University of Ghana
University of Khartoum
University of Calgary

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| awards = Order of the Two Niles

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Peter Lewis Shinnie (January 18, 1915 in London – July 9, 2007 in Calgary) was a British archaeologist and Nubiologist.{{cite web |last1=Clark |first1=Peter |title=Peter Shinnie |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/oct/30/guardianobituaries.obituaries |website=The Guardian |access-date=23 March 2024 |date=30 October 2007}} He was the author of Meroe: A Civilization of the Sudan (1967). He was awarded the Order of the Two Niles in 2004.{{Cite journal |last=David |first=Nicholas |date=2008-06-01 |title=Peter Lewis Shinnie 1915–2007 |journal=African Archaeological Review |language=en |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=125–129 |doi=10.1007/s10437-008-9019-z |issn=1572-9842 |s2cid=162296651 |doi-access=free }}{{Cite book |last=Pigott |first=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rc8xNmt4eZkC&dq=%22Order+of+the+Two+Niles%22&pg=PA9 |title=Canada in Sudan: War Without Borders |date=2009-02-16 |publisher=Dundurn |isbn=978-1-77070-514-2 |language=en |access-date=15 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230322190423/https://books.google.com/books?id=rc8xNmt4eZkC&dq=%22Order+of+the+Two+Niles%22&pg=PA9 |archive-date=22 March 2023 |url-status=live}}{{Cite news |title=Professor Peter Shinnie |language=en |newspaper=The Times |url=https://www.thetimes.com/comment/register/article/professor-peter-shinnie-2fplvvk36qs |url-status=live |access-date=2023-03-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230313213013/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/professor-peter-shinnie-2fplvvk36qs |archive-date=13 March 2023 |issn=0140-0460}}