Philip C. Hammond

Philip C. Hammond (d. 2008) was the Director of the Petra excavations for many years.  An expert on the Nabataeans, he is the author of A History of the Nabataeans: Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology (Lund, 1975) and Petra, the Excavation of the Main Theater (Quaritsch, London, 1966).  He also directed the American expedition to Hebron from 1963–66. He taught at Brandeis University and Princeton Theological Seminary before settling at the University of Utah, where he taught from 1969 until his retirement in 2004.