Nancy Katharine Sandars, FSA, FBA (29 June 1914 – 20 November 2015) was a British archaeologist and prehistorian. As an independent scholar, she was never a university academic, she wrote a number of books and a popular translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Nancy K. Sandars became a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (1975) and a Fellow of the British Academy (1984).