Northern Pontic Antiquities in the State Hermitage Museum

Sir John Boardman is Lincoln Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology and Art, University of Oxford, is the world's most famous expert in ancient Greek archaeology and art. He has written several hundred articles and several dozen books. The latest is Persia and the West (London and New York, 2000).
Sergei L. Solovyov, Ph.D. (1990) in Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences, works at the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. He has published on the archaeology of the northern Black Sea littoral, including Ancient Berezan. The Architecture, History and Culture of the First Greek Colony in the Northern Black Sea (Brill, 1999).
Gocha R. Tsetskhladze, Ph.D. in Archaeology and Ancient History, Russian Academy of Sciences and D.Phil. in Classical Archaeology, University of Oxford, works in the University of London. He has published extensively on the archaeology of Greek colonisation and on the Black Sea region. His latest work is North Pontic Archaeology. Recent Discoveries and Studies (Brill, 2001) (Editor).