Authors

Dan Gill (“It’s A Natural”) is a senior geologist with the Geological Survey of Israel. A member of many scientific committees and societies, including the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Gill holds the rank of Research Scientist Grade A+, the equivalent of a full professor at a university. His article on Hezekiah’s Tunnel, “How They Met,” BAR 20:04, was named the best article in BAR for 1994 and 1995.

Kenneth A. Kitchen (“How We Know When Solomon Ruled”) is professor emeritus of Egyptology at the University of Liverpool, England. He has published some 200 scholarly articles and books, including such landmark references as Ramesside Inscriptions, Historical and Biographical, I–VIII (Blackwell) and The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt (Aris & Phillips). In 1999 Kitchen published Poetry of Ancient Egypt (Astrom) and is now working on the third and fourth volumes of The World of Ancient Arabia (Liverpool Univ. Press).