Mark studied Archaeology at Saint Davids University College, Lampeter in Wales, and Classical Archaeology at Wolfson College and Somerville College at the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and a Fellow at Wolfson. He has worked in magazine publishing in the fields of archaeology, art history, and history since 2002. He specialises in the Roman period and has authored several books in this area. His most recent publication is The Plight of Rome in the Fifth Century AD (Abingdon: Routledge, 2017). He is currently preparing A Compendium of Roman Emperors (London: Routledge, 2026), which is due to be published in the spring. Mark is an accomplished field archaeologist. His recent discovery of a Roman fort in west Wales was followed by successful survey and trial excavation is planned in July.

Jennifer Chi received her doctorate in Fine Arts from New York University's Institute of Fine Arts and a Master of Studies with distinction in Classical Archaeology from the University of Oxford. She is the former founding Exhibitions Director and Chief Curator at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University and has held positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Ashmolean Museum. Her scholarly interests include the connection between Antiquity and Contemporary Art and cultural connectivity from the Mediterranean basin to China.

Michael Bennett received his doctorate in Fine Arts, with a concentration in Classics and Numismatics, from Harvard University. He has worked as a collections curator at the Tampa Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg. His areas of expertise include Greek art and archaeology, the western Greeks, cultural property policy, and the public role of art museums.

Sofia read Classics as an undergraduate and Archaeological Heritage and Museums as a graduate at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge. She is an experienced writer in the heritage sphere and has a broad knowledge of ancient civilisations and topical events and issues in this area. Sofia is presently based in London.

Kaveri is a Senior Fellow at the Centre of Excellence for Himalayan Studies, Shiv Nadar University, New Delhi. She received her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of Cambridge. Kaveri has held many prestigious academic positions, including the Dalai Lama Chair in Nalanda Studies, Goa University; and Principal at the Dalai Lama Institute for Higher Education, Bengaluru. She is a budding authority in Buddhist Philosophy, especially the Nalanda Tradition of India and Tibet, and a highly respected economist, with a growing interest in the questions of secular ethics, as well as non-violence as principle and strategy. Kaveri is also author of the best-selling book Of Poverty and Plastic: Scavenging and Scrap Trading Entrepreneurs in India's Urban Informal Economy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).

For the past ten years, Michael has been actively engaged in the systematic study and documentation of archaeological and art historical museums and sites across Europe, with a particular focus on Graeco-Roman classical antiquity. He is also among the few photographers who work exclusively in the field of museum and archaeological photography, aiming to record in detail both the artefacts on display and their associated interpretive materials.

In addition to studying and reviewing the world’s major museums and ancient art collections, Michael devotes considerable attention to smaller regional museums and archaeological sites. He is currently based in northern Italy.