Gillian E BowenGILLIAN E. BOWEN is Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Ancient Cultures at Monash University. She is deputy director of excavations at Kellis, director of excavations at Dayr Abu Matta, Dakhleh Oasis, and numismatist for the Dakhleh Oass Project. An authority on the archaeology of early Christian Egypt, she has published extensively and has excavated four fourth-century churches, including the earliest surviving purpose-built basilica. Read More Read Less