G. Kenneth Sams (“King Midas: From Myth to Reality”) is a professor of classical archaeology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has served as project director of the Gordion excavations since 1988, and he is currently the president of the American Research Institute in Turkey.

An adjunct professor of Near Eastern studies at Johns Hopkins University, Susan McCarter (“When we Arrived”) frequently lectures on prehistoric archaeology and art history.

T.J. Wilkinson (“Excavating the Land of Sheba”), an associate professor of Near Eastern archaeology at the University of Chicago, has …