David MattinglyBiography
David J. Mattingly earned a Ph.D. in archaeology from the University
of Manchester in 1984. He did postdoctoral research at the
University of Oxford and was on the faculty at the University of
Michigan in Ann Arbor before moving in 1991 to the University of
Leicester, where he is now professor of Roman archaeology. He has
worked in the Sahara desert since 1979 and has directed a study
project in the Libyan Fazzan since 1997. He was a chief author of
Farming the Desert, a prize-winning two-volume report
published by UNESCO, and he has written numerous other books and
articles on the archaeology of North Africa, the Middle East and the Mediterranean.
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