Manfred Bietak is Professor of Egyptology and Chairman of
the Austrian Institute for Egyptology at the University of
Vienna. He is also Director of the Cairo Department of the
Archaeological Institute of Austria and Field Director of the
mission at Tell ed-Daba in the Eastern Nile Delta. The exca-
vation work at Tell ed-Daba (extending well over 32 campaigns)
is recognised as being perhaps the best example of such work
in Egypt with the latest methods and procedures in use and with
a scrupulous attention to detail. Our visit to the site coincided
with the 25th anniversary of the start of work, and the 1992
season was the largest scale excavation operation there in many
years.  Manfred has also directed excavation work at Asasif in
Western Thebes and in Nubia during the UNESCO salvaging
campaigns of the 1960s.  In 1991 he was awarded an ISIS
Fellowship for his work on Second Intermediate Period
archaeology and chronology.

John Bimson is lecturer in Old Testament Studies and Hebrew
at Trinity College, Bristol. He is author of Redating the Exodus
and Conquest (JSOT, Sheffield University, 1978) and is an ISIS
Fellow specialising in the chronology and archaeology of
ancient Palestine.  John gave talks on two peoples within his
field of expertise: the Philistines and the Israelites.

Nicolas Coldstream is Professor of the Department of Classical
Archaeology at University College, London, where he teaches
courses on Minoan and Mycenaean archaeology, the Early Iron
Age in the Aegean World, and Cypriot Bronze and Iron Age
archaeology. He is author of Geometric Greece (Methuen,
London, 1977), one of the standard reference works for students
of Aegean archaeology.  Nicolas is a recognised authority on
the Dark Age and Archaic eras of Greece and the Aegean, a
subject of considerable interest to ISIS members, whilst also
professing a keen interest in the cultural lis between Minoan
Crete and Egypt. During the cruise he delivered his 1992 ISIS
Fellowship Lecture.

Vronwy Hankey is an Honorary Research Fellow of the De-
partment of Egyptology, University College London. She is co-
author, with Peter Warren, of Aegean Bronze Age Chronology
(Bristol Classical Press, 1989), the standard reference work on
the subject since its publication. Vronwy was awarded an ISIS
Fellowship in 1991 for her ongoing investigation of the cultural
links between Egypt and the Aegean in the ancient world.

Bernard Newgrosh is Editor of the Chronology and Cutas-
trophism Review and an ISIS Research Associate specialising in
scientific dating methods. He is also an authority on the el-
Amama Letters in the New Chronology. Bernard has written
extensively on both these and other wide-ranging subjects in
recent years and can be said to be a genuine interdisciplinarian
in Old World studies.

Peter Parr is Head of the Department of Western Asia at the
Institute of Archaeology, London, and Field Director of the
Institute's archaeological mission at Tell Nebi Mend in Syria
(Kadesh-on-the-Orontes).  Peter worked with Dame Kathleen
Kenyon at Jericho in the 1950s and in 1958 undertook five
seasons of research at Petra in Jordan. He has an interest in
military fortifications of the ancient Near East and, needless to
say, is an authority on the site of Kadesh where Ramesses 11
fought his great battle against the Hittites.

David Rohl is a postgraduate student of the Department of
History at University College, London, and was Director of ISIS
as well as being Editor of the JACF (although he retired from
both posts at the end of the last membership year).  David is
also a regular guest lecturer on the Thomas Cook Magnificent
Nile cruises and has excavated with the Institute of Archaeology
mission to Syria at Kadesh-on-the-Orontes. In recognition of his
outstanding work for ISIS and his ongoing revolutionary
research into the chronology of the ancient world, the ISIS
Board of Trustees presented David with an ISIS Fellowship at
the May 2nd ISIS Lecture Meeting.

Lefl to right: Vronwy Hankey, John Bimson, Manfred Bietak, Nicolas Colhtream, Bernard Newgrosh, David Rohl and Peter Parr.

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