Authors
Harrison Eiteljorg (“Antiquity’s High Holy Place: The Athenian Acropolis”) is founder and director of the Center for the Study of Architecture/Archaeology, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. His specialty is Greek architecture of the classical period, and since 2000 he has been directing the center’s Propylaea Project.
Co-author Mihail Zahariade (“Death at Halmyris”), a senior researcher with the Romanian Institute of Thracology in Bucharest, specializes in Roman political, social and military history. Myrna K. Phelps, principal field assistant of the Halmyris excavations, has worked with archaeological expeditions in Central America and along the Danube River.
Independent scholar Francis Deblauwe (“Going, Going, Gone! A Report on Archaeological Sites in Iraq”), who has excavated at numerous sites in the Near East, has kept readers of Archaeology Odyssey informed about the condition of Iraq’s archaeological heritage in the following articles: “Plundering the Past: The Rape of Iraq’s National Museum,” July/August 2003; and “Iraq Update,” September/October 2003.