At the time of the original publication, Douglas J. Brewer was Director of the Spurlock Museum of Culture and Natural History and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois.
Donald Redford is Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and History, Penn State University. He is a historian and philologist of north-east Africa and the Near East, From 1964–1967 he served under Dame Kathleen Kenyon in the excavations of the old city of Jerusalem. In 1976 he discovered the oldest temple of the heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten, and in subsequent years revealed a major domestic area of the capital city of Thebes and has continued to work in Egypt.
Susan Redford is Assistant Teaching Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Penn State University. Her research interests have focused primarily on the reign of Ramesses III and also that of the pharaoh Akhenaten, father of King Tutenkhamun. She is currently concentrating on archaeological research in the eastern Nile delta area.
