John Clifford Tidmarsh
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Dr John Tidmarsh is currently President of the University of Sydney’s Near Eastern Archaeology Foundation, and part-time lecturer in the Department of Archaeology. He is also Co-Director of the University’s excavations at Pella in Jordan, and the ANU/University of Melbourne excavations at Jebel Khalid in Syria.
He has also excavated in Greece and Cyprus. His special interests are in the Hellenistic period in the East (in which area he gained his PhD) and in the art and archaeology of the Islamic period. He has led numerous tours to Iran, Oman, Turkey, Syria, Jordan and other countries in the eastern Mediterranean.