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British archaeologist and historian (1947–2004)

Stuart Christopher Munro-Hay (21 April 1947 – 14 October 2004) was a British archaeologist, numismatist and Ethiopianist.

Dr Stuart Christopher Hay Munro-Hay, who died on October in Thailand, was a leading scholar of Ethiopia and south Arabia, specialising in.

Dr Stuart Christopher Hay Munro-Hay, who died on October in Thailand, was a leading scholar of Ethiopia and south Arabia, specialising in.

Biography.

Stuart Christopher Munro-Hay (21 April – 14 October ) was a.

Biography: A scholar of Ethiopia and Southern Arabia, specialising in the numismatic history of those regions.

He died at the age of 57 on 14 Octo-ber in Thailand.

He studied the culture and history of ancient Ethiopia, the Horn of Africa region and South Arabia, particularly their history of coins.

Born in Northern Ireland, he was initially called Stuart Christopher H. McIlwrath, but took his mother's maiden name after his parents separated.

Munro-Hay studied Egyptology at the University of Liverpool from 1970 to 1974.^[1] As a student and collaborator of Neville Chittick, he worked on the 1973-74 excavation project of the British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) in Aksum, the capital of the late-antique Aksumite Empire.

The excavations had to be cancelled due to the Derg's coup d'état in 1974, but Munro-Hay continued to dedicate his work to researching the history of Aksum, and in particular compiled a large collection of Aksumite coins.