Nicholas Postgate is a British Assyriologist. He is Professor of Assyriology at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. From 1982 to 1985, he was a university lecturer in the history and archaeology of the Ancient Near East. He was promoted to Reader in Mesopotamian studies in 1985. He was promoted to Professor of Assyriology in 1994. He undertook excavations at Abu Salabikh, a Sumerian city in Iraq, from 1975 to 1989. From 1994 to 1998, he was the director of excavations at Kilise Tepe, a Bronze and Iron Age site in Turkey.