About the Author

Damian Robinson is the Director of the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology. He was Co-Director of the Anglo-American Project from 1994-2006 and was responsible for the study of standing architectural remains throughout the Casa del Chirurgo (and all of Insula VI 1) excavations. Franck Goddio is founder of the French IEASM (European Institute for Underwater Archaeology) and Visiting Professor in Maritime Archaeology at the University of Oxford. He has initiated and directed a number of excavations on shipwrecks, and discovered the city of Thonis-Heracleion, 7 km off the Egyptian shore in Aboukir Bay.