About the Author

Dr Aidan Dodson studied archaeology at Durham, Liverpool and Cambridge Universities, and is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Archaeology & Anthropology at the University of Bristol, where he has taught since 1996. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2003, was Simpson Professor at the American University in Cairo for the spring of 2013 and is the author of 17 books and over 400 articles and reviews.