Meet Thanos Webb – our half  American, half Greek staff archaeologist. In between taking care of his three-year-old twins, drinking copious amounts of coffee and wearing cowboy hats, Thanos is finishing up a PhD from UCLA.

When I was ten, my family paid a visit to an uncle who was directing an underwater excavation. After that experience,
I never imagined doing anything else

(Photo right: Thanos using the water sieve he built himself using scrap materials found around the site in Corinth. In the background is the ‘bema’ where St. Paul is thought to have spoke to the Corinthians.)

I did my MA in Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M and my PhD (ABD) in Archaeology at UCLA.

I always thought I would make a good dance instructor… I just need to learn how to dance first.

Gloria Steinem – it’s the 21th century, everyone should be a feminist.

An expedient bone tool.

When Christian pilgrims would sing hymns to St. Paul at Ancient Corinth.

… stratigraphy!

… sing.

… burn things on the BBQ.

… lifted from Indiana Jones: “It’s not the years, it’s the mileage.”