Samuel Verdan Editor

Dr Samuel Verdan is senior researcher at the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece. He has directed excavations in Eretria (Euboea) and taught at the University of Lausanne. He studies Early Iron Age pottery and is collaborating in the exploration and study of the Artemision at Amarynthos. He has published the Geometric phases of the sanctuary of Apollo at Eretria and a study on Eretrian Geometric pottery. He has edited a volume on pottery quantification and a book devoted to a Gulag camp.

Sylvian Fachard is Full Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Lausanne and Director of the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece. Formerly A.W. Mellon Professor at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, he has held research positions at Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies and Brown University. His work focuses on Greek fortifications and the territorial organization of poleis, promoting a landscape approach for the study of rural fortifications. He directed surveys and excavations in Eretria and Amarynthos. He's the co-editor of the Athens and Attica in Prehistory volume with Archaeopress, the co-editor of The Destruction of Cities in the Ancient Greek World, CUP, 2021, with E. Harris.