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Veronica Marjory Seton-Williams (* 20). April 1910 † May 29, 1992 was a British-Australian archaeologist who conducted research in Egypt and the Middle East. She studied History and Political Science at the University of Melbourne and Egyptology and Prehistoric History at University College London.

Biography
Veronica Seton-Williams was born in 1910 to Seton Gordon Nixon Williams (1856–1927), a lawyer, and Eliza Mary (Ellie) Staughton (1875–1947) in Melbourne, Australia.

Veronica was taught at home until she started going to school at Clyde Girls Grammar School in 1925.In 1934 she received her bachelor's degree from the University of Melbourne and moved to England to study under Mortimer Wheeler at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. She began studying Egyptology under Professor Stephen Glanville, but changed her subject to early British history. She completed her studies in 1957 with a doctorate in Syrian Archaeology. During her studies she dug in Maiden Castle, Dorset (1934–1936) with Mortimer Wheeler, in Sheikh es-Zuweid on the Sinai Peninsula (1935–1936) with Flinders Petrie, in Palestine and Turkey (1936–1937) with John Garstang, and in Tell el-Duweir (1937–1938). In addition, in 1935 she worked with E. Cecil Curwen at the excavation of Whitehawk Camp in Brighton.

During World War II she worked in the Postal Censorship Department and the British Council's Ministry of Information.

In 1949, Veronica continued the work of John Garstang at the excavation site of Sakçe Gözü in Turkey. In 1956, 1960 and 1963 she dug at Tel Rifa'at in Syria. In 1964 she was appointed field director of the excavation of the Egypt Exploration Society in Buto (1964–68). There she worked with Dorothy Charlesworth, who became field director in 1969. After her time in Buto, Veronica wrote extensive reports.

Veronica taught Egyptian and Mesopotamian archaeology at the University of London for 25 years. During this time she worked a lot with Joan du Plat Taylor and John Waechter on projects in Cyprus, Syria and Turkey. She also taught Egyptology at the City Literary Institute. Veronica taught until 1977.

She published in English and French. Important publications include Britain and the Arab states, Egyptian stories and Legends, a short history of Egypt.

Individual evidence

Anthropologist (20th century)
University of London (University of London)
British
Australians
Born in 1910
Died in 1992
Woman