Ian Begg studied archaeology in Greece at the America School of Classical Studies in Athens, participating in all the student trips around Greece, Attica and Crete. He obtained his PhD from the University of Toronto with his thesis on “Minoan Storerooms in the Late Bronze Age.” For this book, the author retraced Gilbert Bagnani’s footsteps around Greece, the Aegean, Turkey and Libya.
He has not only participated in excavations at Morgantina in Sicily, Corinth in Greece, Khania and Kommos on Crete and Tebtunis in Egypt, but also initiated a survey on the Aegean island of Karpathos especially for the chapter in this volume.
