About the Author

The Meadows Associate Professor of Biblical Archeology at Texas A&M University, SHELLEY  WACHSMANN  is also the author of Seagoing Ships and Seamanship in the Bronze Age Levant (Texas A&M University Press, 1998), which received the Irene Levi-Sala Book Prize in the Archaeology of Israel, and The Sea of Galilee Boat: An Extraordinary 2000-Year-Old Discovery (Texas A&M University Press, 2009), which won the Biblical Archeology Society’s Award for best popular book.

Reviews

"Dr. Wachsmann has made some brilliant discoveries based on very careful research and is to be commended on a real tour de force."--Dr. Peter Lacovara, senior curator of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian and Near Eastern Art at the Michael C. Carlos Museum Emory University

|"The Gurob Model is a unique artifact, highly important for the light it sheds on ancient ship design in the eastern Mediterranean. Up to now it has received only passing mention in books and articles. It deserves a book of its own...an authoritative and detailed description of the ship model...This book will be the first in its field. There is no other book on the subject of the Gurob boat model."--John R. Hale, director of Liberal Studies at the University of Louisville

|"Shelley Wachsmann is one of the world's leading experts in maritime archaeology. He effortlessly combines deep knowledge of subject with a wonderful ability to explain this complex topic to both professionals and to the general reader."--Gil J. Stein, professor of Near Eastern Archaeology and director of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago

|"This richly textured book about a remarkable find of a wooden ship model on wheels from Egypt becomes the starting point for a tour de force into the decades of turmoil during the period of the Sea Peoples in the East Mediterranean. Wachsmann convincingly reconstructs the historical context of the Gurob model as belonging to the Sherden and Weshesh - Sea-Peoples of Urnfield origin that settled in Egypt and quickly became assimilated."--Kristian Kristiansen, professor of archaeology at University of Gothenburg, Sweden; Bronze Age researcher; co-author of The Rise of Bronze Age Society (Cambridge University Press, 2005)