Georgina Herrmann, OBE, FSA, FBA (born 20 October 1937) is a British retired archaeologist and academic, specialising in Near Eastern archaeology.
Having worked as a civil servant, she later studied archaeology and spent the rest of her career as an active field archaeologist and lecturer.
[3][7] Herrmann's early research interests included Sasanian rock reliefs in Iran, the third millennium BCE lapis lazuli trade from Afghanistan, and the Nimrud ivories.
[3][8] She played a key role in the successful application for Merv to become the first UNESCO World Heritage Site in Central Asia, which was granted in 1999.
Studies on the Ancient Near East in Honour of Georgina Herrmann, edited by Dirk Wicke and John Curtis, Marru 15 (Münster: Zaphon), 2022.
[ISBN 9783963272080] [OCLC 1351779706] In 1965, Georgina Thompson married Luke John Herrmann,[3] a German-born British art historian.