Colin A HopeGillian Bowen and Colin Hope are Senior Research Adjuncts in the Centre for Ancient Cultures at Monash University and direct excavations in Dakhleh Oasis at Ismant al-Kharab, Mut al-Kharab and Dayr Abu Matta, which span almost 4000 years. Hope is a funding member of the Dakhleh Oasis Project who has coordinated research on ceramics and focuses upon settlement archaeology in Dakhleh, while Bowen specialises in the archaeology of early Christianity. Olaf Kaper is Professor of Egyptology at Leiden University, co-director of excavations at Amhida in the Dakhleh Oasis, epigrapher for Dakhleh Oasis Project, and an authority on ancient Egyptian religion. Paul Kucera now directs the Qasr Dakhleh Project and is an authority on Roman military architecture in Egypt. Read More Read Less