Charles Allen Burney (1930 – 10 November 2024)[1] was a British archaeologist known for his discovery of Urartian sites in Turkey in the 1950s and his excavations at Yanik Tepe, Tabriz, Iran from 1960 to 1962.
[2] He is particularly known for his identification and sketch surveying of numerous Urartian sites during field expeditions made to the Lake Van region in the mid 1950s[3] and his excavations at Yanik Tepe, Tabriz, Iran from 1960 to 1962.
Yanik Tepe is a multi-period site northwest of Lake Urmia with nine phases, including some of the earliest settlements in the region.
[4][5] A collection of studies in his honour, A View from the Highlands &c., was published by Peeters in 2004.
[6] Burney has contributed articles to Anatolian Studies and Iran.