Authors

Heather Lee McCarthy (“Place of the Beautiful Ones”), a graduate student at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, is writing her Ph.D. dissertation on the tombs of royal women in the Valley of the Queens. She has published articles on battle scenes of Ramesses II and on Nefertari and Osiris.

Classical folklorist Adrienne Mayor (“Ancient WMDs: Torches & Poisons & Bees”) is the author of Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World (Woodstock, 2003). Her article “Sea Monsters and Other Ancient Beasts” appeared in the March/April 2002 issue of Archaeology Odyssey.

Elizabeth Rosen Stone (“East Meets West: How Greek Art Influenced Monumental Pillars of India’s Emperor Ashoka”) is an independent scholar and a recent Andrew W. Mellon Senior Fellow in Art History at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She has published widely on Buddhist and Indian art.