Experts by Specialty: Archaeologist
Peter Frost
Peter Frost is a writer, photographer, archaeologist, and independent scholar who has explored the Andes and Amazon for 35 years, and lived in Peru since 1987. He has published four books on Peru and Ecuador, including a guide to the Cusco region and a book on Machu Picchu... More »
Iris Barry
Iris Barry is a resident of Fife, Scotland, and a historian and archaeologist by profession. She has a master's degree from the University of Cambridge in archaeology and anthropology, where her special field was the Celtic and Germanic Dark Ages of Britain... More »
Constanza Ceruti
A National Geographic Emerging Explorer, high-altitude archaeologist Constanza Ceruti specializes in excavating Inca Empire ceremonial centers on the summits of sacred Andean mountains. Constanza's most impressive find to date took place on a 22,100-foot summit, where the expedition she co-led unearthed the three best-preserved mummies ever discovered... More »
Bob Hohlfelder
Bob Hohlfelder, Professor Emeritus of Ancient History at the University of Colorado, Boulder, has been at the forefront of the field of classical maritime archaeology for more than three decades. He has participated in numerous digs around the world, several funded in part by National Geographic... More »
Ronald Messier
Ronald Messier is professor emeritus at Middle Tennessee State University and former adjunct professor and senior lecturer at Vanderbilt University, where he taught Islamic history and historical archaeology. He received three National Geographic research grants to direct the excavation of the ancient city of Sijilmasa in Morocco, famous for its gold trade and its contacts with Timbuktu... More »
Johan Reinhard
Johan Reinhard, an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society, is a high-altitude archaeologist. Johan recovered the Ice Maiden, an Inca mummy on Peru's Mount Ampato, a discovery chosen by Time magazine as one of the world's ten most important of 1995... More »
