Michael MacDonaldMichael C.A. Macdonald is an Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy. His research focuses on ancient literacy, the languages, scripts and inscriptions of northern Arabia, Jordan and Syria, and the ancient histoy of the nomads of the region. He has been directing epigraphic surveys in the area for the last forty-five years, and currently directs the Badia Epigraphic Survey in Jordan and co-directs the Saudi-British-German project Epigraphy and Landscape in the Hinterland of Tayma’. From 2013 to 2017, he created and directed the Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia (OCIANA) project. In 2018 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Chicago. Read More Read Less