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Michael Ridley is an English author, archaeologist and orientalist.

In 1955 he was present at the opening of the Han tomb at Lei Cheng Uk in China.[1] He has written many books and has spent time as curator at the Rochdale Museum in Lancashire,[2] the Museum of Archaeology at Bournemouth,[3] and served as director of the Tutankhamun Exhibition in Dorchester;[4] as of 2008, he was keeper of Oriental Art and Archaeology at the Russell-Cotes Museum in Bournemouth. He is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, the Royal Anthropological Institute, and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.[5]

Works

• The Art of World Religions — Buddhism, Blandford Press, Dorset, 1978, ISBN 0-7137-0886-7 [5][6]
• Oriental Antiques in Color, Arco Publishing, 1978
• Style, Motif and Design in Chinese Art, Blandford Press, 1977
• Treasures from China, The Dolphin Press, 1973[7]
• The Megalithic Art of the Maltese Islands, The Dolphin Press, Christchurch, 1972[8]
• Far Eastern Antiquities, Gifford, London, 1972
• Oriental Art of India, Nepal and Tibet for Pleasure and Investment, Gifford, London, 1970[9]

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