John Peter Oleson, an archaeologist and Classics scholar, is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada, where he has taught since 1976. Robert Schick is an archaeologist and historian active in Jordan since 1980.He is currently a research fellow at the American Center of Oriental Research in Amman, writing the report of an old excavation of the Byzantine and Early Islamic remains in the Madaba Archaeological Park.