Mantai

John Carswell studied at the RCA in London, and worked as draftsman for Kathleen Kenyon at Jericho. He taught fine art at the AUB, then became Curator of the ORINST Museum, and Director, DAS Museum at the University of Chicago, Director of the Islamic Department at Sotheby’s, and now Professorial Associate at SOAS. He writes extensively on Turkish and Islamic pottery, Chinese porcelain, and Islamic art and architecture. Siran Deraniyagala, distinguished archaeologist and prehistorian, studied at Cambridge and Harvard, and excavated throughout Sri Lanka. As Director-General of the Archaeological Survey in Sri Lanka, he formulated the rules governing any future excavation. His seminal publication is The Prehistory of Sri Lanka: An Ecological Perspective, 1992. Alan Graham, a graduate of the Institute of Archaeology, London, has been active in field archaeology since 1970. Living in South West England he has excavated and published numerous sites from Neolithic henge, Iron Age hillfort, Romano-British and medieval town to 17th century bronze cauldron foundry. Internationally he has worked around the Mediterranean, in Afghanistan and Sri Lanka