Michael VickersIulon Gagoshidze is a consultant at the Georgian National Museum and an Academician of the Gelati Academy of Sciences. He was director of several archaeological expeditions in Georgia, Azerbaijan, Israel and Cyprus. His research centres on the archaelogy of the Achaemenid, Hellenistic and Roman periods. He is the author of ten monographs and over 300 articles. Michael Vickers is Professor Emeritus of Archaeology at the University of Oxford, an Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College, and former Curator of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the Ashmolean Museum. He was co-director of the joint British-Georgian Pichvnari Expedition 1998-2010 and co-director of the survey and partial excavation of the Roman circus at Leptis Magna in 1974. Darejan Kacharava is Deputy Director of the Georgia National Museum and Director of the Vani Archaeological Expedition (Georgia). She is the author of over 60 articles about classical archaeology. She was previously Lecturer at the University of Georgia. David Gagoshidze is an invited lecturer at the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University and assistant curator at the Georgian National Museum. He is Head of the Dedoplis Gora Archaeological Expedition (Georgia). Read More Read Less