Daniel T. Potts

Daniel T. Potts, FBA (born 1953), is an American historian and archaeologist.

Potts graduated from Harvard University (B.A. in 1975 and Ph.D. in 1980) and worked in Free University of Berlin (1981–86), the University of Copenhagen (1980–81, 1986–1991). From 1991 to 2012 he was the Edwin Cuthbert Hall Professor of Middle Eastern Archaeology in the University of Sydney. Currently he is the Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and History in the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World of New York University. He also worked in Iran, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.

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, one of the most authoritative series of the collective works about the subject.