The senior staff.

Here are some photographs of our senior staff, just so you can put faces to the names you’ll be reading about. You’ll get to know more about all of us and our research as the season continues.

Timothy Matney from the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio (USA) is filling out sample tags. At Ziyaret Tepe everyone helps with the mundane tasks that keep the project running smoothly.

John MacGinnis is from the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Here he is examining a section cut through a main street leading into Tushhan through the southern gate (Operation Q.)

Dirk Wicke comes from the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Mainz, Germany.

Kemalettin Koroglu, a Professor at Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey, is drawing a section of the city’s fortification wall in Operation K.