Nick Gifford has a doctorate in anthropology, specialising in ancient civilisations most people have never heard of. He comes from a long line of explorers (uncannily, his family is much like the Bone family) and he'd love to have been around when it was okay for a chap to travel the world discovering lost cities and bagging the good bits for the British Museum. As it is, he's had to settle for writing about it all instead.