Thomas E. Levy (“Edom and Copper,”) is professor of Anthropology and Judaic Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He specializes in the archaeology of the Levant and has done fieldwork in Jordan since 1997. Most recently, he was co-editor (with Thomas Higham, University of Oxford) of The Bible and Radiocarbon Dating: Archaeology, Text and Science. Mohammad Najjar is director of excavations at the Department of Antiquities of Jordan and is head (in Jordan) of “Discover Islamic Art,” a project sponsored by Euromed Heritage to create a virtual museum of Islamic art on the Internet. He is author […]