David Price Williams has spent his working life as an East Mediterranean archaeologist, having earned a degree in Ancient Near Eastern languages and Classical Greek, as well as a doctorate in Near Eastern archaeology. His first overseas field work was in 1969 as a surveyor at the classical site of Knidos in Turkey. He then worked for the Smithsonian Institution before directing his own field research in the same area through the 1970s. David has designed and lectured on many cruises to Greece, Turkey, and the Near East. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and an elected life member of the Society for Old Testament Studies.

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