Professor – School of Biosciences – University of Exeter Dr. Rob Lee is a Professor in the School of Biosciences at the University of Exeter. His research looks at the study of languages. Recently he led a team that determined that the symbols carved on stones by the Picts, a society that flourished in Scotland from AD 300-843, constitute a written language rather than symbology. The team determined this by assessing the randomness of the symbols. They found that there is some predictability with the symbols, evidence that they constitute a written language. Their results were published recently in the journal…
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Dr Paul G Bahn Distinguished archaeologist and author Dr Paul G Bahn is a distinguished archaeologist, and a prolific writer and broadcaster on archaeology, prehistoric art and early man. In 2003 and 2004, he led the team that discovered Britain’s first Ice Age cave art at Creswell Crags in Nottinghamshire. He holds a PhD from Cambridge, conducting his thesis on the prehistory of the French Pyrénées. He is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and a member of various international organisations, including the Société Préhistorique Française and a variety of rock art research associations. He is also a contributing…
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Attribution: Sandro Vannini Kathleen Martinez Archaeologist Dr Kathleen Martinez, from the Dominican Republic, is an archaeologist and expert in Ancient Egypt. She is famous for her pioneering discoveries at Taposiris Magna, where she believes she has found the tomb of Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. Martinez earned a law degree from her home country, but was fascinated from an early age with scholarly discussions about the life and times of Cleopatra. She became angry with the way Cleopatra had been portrayed through the ages, and was determined to find her mysterious tomb. “(Cleopatra) spoke nine languages, she was a…
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Ron Williamson Chief Archaeologist – Archaeological Services Inc. Dr. Ron Williamson is Chief Archaeologist with the firm Archaeological Services Inc. One of the largest cultural resource management firms in Ontario. He holds an MA and PhD in Anthropology from McGill University in Montreal Quebec and a Hon. BA in Anthropology from the University of Western Ontario. He has directed over 1,000 surveys, excavations and planning projects in the Great Lakes/Northeastern North America region. This includes remains from 12,000 years ago to modern times. He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. He’s…
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Attribution: Nico Piazza Hourig Sourouzian Egyptologist, Art Historian and Head of the Amenhotep III Temple Conservation Project Dr Hourig Sourouzian is a highly-respected German-Armenian Egyptologist and art historian, and the head of the Amenhotep III Temple Conservation Project. She is one of the world’s leading authorities on Egyptian royal statuary. Sourouzian was born in Baghdad, to parents of Armenian descent, and grew up in Beirut. She studied Egyptology and art history in the Louvre and obtained a PhD in art history from the University of Paris-Sorbonne with a thesis on Egyptian royal statuary. Sourouzian additionally studied classical Arabic at the…
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American archaeologist specialising in cultural resource management Tom King is an American archaeologist who has gone beyond archaeology to practice in, and preach about, the evolving field of heritage or cultural resource management. His career includes the conduct of archaeological research in California and the Micronesian islands, management of academy-based and private cultural resource consulting organisations, helping establish government historic preservation systems in the freely associated states of Micronesia, oversight of US government project review for the federal government’s Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, service as a litigant and expert witness in heritage-related lawsuits, and extensive work as a consultant…
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Salima Ikram Leading Expert on Animals in Ancient Egypt Professor Salima Ikram is one of the world’s leading authorities on animals in Ancient Egypt, and has published several books about the culture, which she has loved since childhood. Dr Ikram currently holds the post of Professor of Egyptology at Cairo’s American University, and frequently appears in magazines and on television to discuss Egypt. She is also a grantee of the National Geographic Society’s Committee for Research and Exploration. Born in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1965, Dr Ikram studies Egyptology and Archaeology at Pennsylvania’s Bryn Mawr College. She then earned a M.Phil.…
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Giants of Giza The Pyramids of Giza may be some of the world’s most amazing and iconic structures, and are still the emblems of Egypt today. With robots right now exploring the mysterious Osiris shaft of the Great Pyramid, there’s never been a more exciting time to start discovering these massive structures. In an exclusive Heritage Key interview, Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SAC), has promised that this year, finally, the “Secrets of the pyramids will finally be revealed”. Watch this space! World Tour There are actually hundreds of pyramids. Many are in Egypt, but…
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King Tut: Meet the Mummy Who discovered King Tut? Sean Carter Howard Carter Michael Howard Zahi Hawass Howard Spencer