Cemal Pulak, “Shipwreck! Recovering 3,000-Year-Old Cargo,” began his career with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA) as a volunteer while studying engineering at the Bosporus University in Istanbul, Turkey. He has directed the INA’s annual shipwreck surveys on the Turkish coast since 1983 and co-directed (with George Bass) the Uluburun underwater excavations from 1984 to 1996. Among his publications is “RES MARITIMAE,” in S. Swiny et al., eds., Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean from Prehistory to Late Antiquity (1997). When above water, Pulak teaches courses on ancient seafaring and Bronze Age maritime trade at Texas A&M University.
The Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Ancient Egyptian Art at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, David O’Connor is co-director of the excavations at Abydos, in Upper Egypt; he also co-directed the 1971–1974 excavations of Malkata and Birket Habu. O’Connor is the author of a number of books on ancient Egypt, and was co-editor (with Eric H. Cline) of Amenhotep III: Perspectives on his Reign (University of Michigan, 1997).
Dorit Symington is an independent scholar living in England. She has explored ancient Hittite and Mesopotamian texts for evidence of waxed writing tablets and published her findings in “Late Bronze Age Writing Boards and Their Uses: Textual Evidence from Anatolia and Syria,” in Anatolian Studies 41 (Ankara, 1991).
Cemal Pulak, “Shipwreck! Recovering 3,000-Year-Old Cargo,” began his career with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA) as a volunteer while studying engineering at the Bosporus University in Istanbul, Turkey. He has directed the INA’s annual shipwreck surveys on the Turkish coast since 1983 and co-directed (with George Bass) the Uluburun underwater excavations from 1984 to 1996. Among his publications is “RES MARITIMAE,” in S. Swiny et al., eds., Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean from Prehistory to Late Antiquity (1997). When above water, Pulak teaches courses on ancient seafaring and Bronze Age maritime trade at Texas A&M University. The Lila […]
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