Professor James Whitley

Professor in Mediterranean Archaeology at Cardiff University, where he has taught Greek archaeology from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic period since 1990. He has excavated in Britain, Italy (Gubbio) and Greece, and has directed a programme of survey and excavation around the ancient city of Praisos in Crete since 1992. Between 2002 and 2007 he was Director of the British School at Athens. His publications include The Archaeology of Ancient Greece (Cambridge, 2001), which won the Runciman Prize, and, most recently, Knossos: Myth, History and Archaeology (Bloomsbury, 2023).