Arezou Azad holds the Chair in the Art and Heritage of Afghanistan at the Institut national des
langues et civilisations orientale in Paris and is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford
and Director of the Invisible East programme.

Edmund Herzig is Masoumeh and Fereydoon Soudavar Professor of Persian Studies at the
University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow in Iranian Studies at Wadham College, Oxford.

Robert G. Hoyland is Professor of the Late Antique and Early Islamic History of the Middle East at
New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, having formerly taught at the
universities of Oxford and St Andrews.

Philippe Marquis was the Director of Délégation archéologique française en Afghanistan (DAFA).

Paul Wordsworth is a Lecturer in Silk Roads Archaeology and Heritage at University College
London, UK.