Authors

Matthew Bogdanos (“Tracking Down the Looted Treasures of Iraq”) has been an assistant district attorney in Manhattan since 1988. A colonel in the Marine reserves and an amateur boxer, he holds a law degree and a master’s in classics from Columbia University, as well as a master’s in strategic studies from the Army War College. Recalled to active duty after September 11, 2001, Bogdanos received a Bronze Star for counter-terrorist operations in Afghanistan and served in Iraq in 2003 and again in 2004. Released from active duty in October 2005, Bogdanos returned to the district attorney’s office and heads New York’s first antiquities task force.

Seymour Gitin (“Excavating Ekron”) is director of the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem. For 14 seasons he co-directed, with Trude Dothan, the excavations at Tel Miqne (Biblical Ekron). Symbiosis, Symbolism and the Power of the Past (Eisenbrauns, 2003), which Gitin co-edited with William G. Dever, received the Biblical Archaeology Society Publication Award for best book relating to the Old Testament published in 2003–2004.