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Dr. Benjamin Dolinka (PhD 2007, Archaeology, University of Liverpool) – formerly Jerusalem District Ceramics Specialist, Israel Antiquities Authority; currently Independent Scholar. Author of Nabataean Aila (Aqaba, Jordan) from a Ceramic Perspective (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 2003) and 7 scholarly articles.

Dr. Nicolò Pini (PhD in Classical Archaeology at the University of Cologne, (Germany) is an archaeologist, specialized in ancient urbanism, architecture, and social structures in the Roman and Byzantine periods. Over the last years he has ventured into the Early, Middle, and even Late Islamic periods. He currently conducts a postdoctoral research project at the CReA-Patrimoine, Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), funded by the Belgian Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique – FNRS (CR - Chargé de recherches). He was previously awarded a COFUND Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship at the same institution. He collaborates on several projects in the Near East, in particular with the Islamic Archaeology Research Unit at the University of Bonn and is also external research associate of the Panorama Platform (based at the Universitè libre de Bruxelles), specialized in acquisition and digitization of objects and architectural surveys.

Zubair ʿAdawī is an archaeologist with the Israel Antiquities Authority, operating in the Jerusalem area, and has conducted a number of development surveys and participated in and led dozens of small- and medium-scale excavations, both independently and together with his colleagues from the Jerusalem Regional Department–and from other divisions of the Antiquities Authority–in coordination with development work. He has been involved with many notable excavations including: Roman and Byzantine burial caves on the Mount of Olives; a Roman cemetery on Salah a-Din Street near the Old City; Khirbet Umm Tuba, at the foot of the Tel of Ramat Rachel, between Jerusalem and Bethlehem–a rural settlement that originated during the Iron Age and was continually occupied through almost all subsequent periods; and the tomb of a monk, discovered bound in iron rings, below the church at Ramat Shelomo in northern Jerusalem.