Authors

The Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities at the American Academy in Rome, Ingrid D. Rowland (“Etruscan Women: Dignified, Charming, Literate and Free”) is the author of The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome (Cambridge University Press, 1998) and a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books. Her article “The Etruscans—Mastering the Delicate Art of Living” appeared in the Summer 1998 issue of Archaeology Odyssey.

Zahi Hawass (“The Cairo Museum: Celebrating a Century of Finds”) is the Secretary General of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities and director of the Giza Pyramids Excavation. He is the author of numerous popular books, including Secrets from the Sand: My Search for Egypt’s Past (Abrams, 2003). He has also contributed to Archaeology Odyssey: “Mummies: Emissaries of the Golden Age,” September/October 2000; and “Who Really Built the Pyramids?” May/June 1999.