Authors

Years ago, when Abraham Levy (“Bad Timing”) was the assistant to the commissioner for rebuilding Jerusalem, he suggested selling replicas of ancient artifacts to boost tourism. Since then he has made a business of it, studying the production and trade of ancient artifacts and selling selected replicas.

Margreet Steiner (“It’s Not There: Archaeology Proves a Negative”) covers the world: She has a B.A. in geography, an M.A. in European prehistory and a Ph.D. in Near Eastern archaeology. She has supervised excavations in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. She is currently working with Henk Franken at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands to publish the findings from Kathleen Kenyon’s Jerusalem excavations.