Professor emeritus of art history at City College of New York, Jacob Rothenberg (“Lord Elgin’s Marbles”) first wrote about the Elgin Marbles in his Ph.D. dissertation, which was published as Descensus Ad Terram: The Acquisition and Reception of the Elgin Marbles (Garland Publishing, 1977). He is author of The Parthenon, a volume in the Norton Critical Studies in Art History series.
Eric H. Cline (“In Pharaoh’s Footsteps”), shown with his daughter Hannah, holds a teaching fellowship at Stanford University. He has excavated in the United States, Jordan, Egypt, Cyprus, Greece and Israel, where he is currently a senior staff archaeologist at Megiddo. Cline is author of Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: International Trade and the Late Bronze Age Aegean (Tempus Reparatum, 1994) and The Battles of Armageddon: A Military History of Megiddo and the Jezreel Valley from the Bronze Age to the Nuclear Age (forthcoming).
Pamela Gaber (“The Birth of Adonis?”) is author of Regional Styles in Cypriote Sculpture (Garland Publishing, 1986) and “Stratified Pottery from the Joint American Expedition to Idalion” (Proceedings of the Third International Congress of Cypriote Studies, Nicosia, 1996 [forthcoming]). She has dug in Jordan, Israel and Cyprus, where she currently directs the University of Arizona’s excavations at Idalion. Her co-author and husband, William G. Dever, led excavations at Gezer, Israel, from 1971 to 1975 and again in 1984. He is professor of Near Eastern Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Arizona.
By age ten, Ann Macy Roth (“Architecture of the Afterlife”) was passing notes written in hieroglyphic script to her classmates—but it was not until college that she got “the language down cold.” She teaches at Howard University, where she is an assistant professor of Egyptology.
Professor emeritus of art history at City College of New York, Jacob Rothenberg (“Lord Elgin’s Marbles”) first wrote about the Elgin Marbles in his Ph.D. dissertation, which was published as Descensus Ad Terram: The Acquisition and Reception of the Elgin Marbles (Garland Publishing, 1977). He is author of The Parthenon, a volume in the Norton Critical Studies in Art History series. Eric H. Cline (“In Pharaoh’s Footsteps”), shown with his daughter Hannah, holds a teaching fellowship at Stanford University. He has excavated in the United States, Jordan, Egypt, Cyprus, Greece and Israel, where he is currently a senior staff […]
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