Konstantinos

Dr Konstantinos D. Politis is an archaeologist and historian educated in Greece, the United States, Belgium and Britain. He specialises in the Late Antique and Medieval periods. He is chairperson of the Hellenic Society for Near Eastern Studies. Dr Politis has published seven books, numerous scholarly articles and has presented many lectures in Europe, the Near East, Australia and North America. He has also led many academic tour groups to Greece, Jordan, Turkey, Oman, Egypt and Syria.

From 1988 until 2011 Dr Politis was based at the British Museum which was the principal sponsor of his excavations. He instigated the Museum at the Lowest Place on Earth in Safi (Jordan) and organised various exhibitions from Hellenism in the Near East to industrial history in modern Greece. He has also worked for the Greek Culture Ministry, Ministry of Tourism of Jordan, National Geographic Society, Athens University, UNESCO and USAID.