Lynne S. NewtonLYNNE S. NEWTON received her doctorate from the University of Minnesota with research on the Iron Age and Islamic periods in the Mahra Governorate of Yemen. Since 2007, she has co-directed excavations at the Medieval port of Al-Baleed and the generalarchaeological survey of Dhofar. Between 2011 and 2014, she was Curator of Maritime History at the National Museum of Qatar. The author published numerous research articles on Dhofar and the Mahra Governate, including also her doctorate ‘A Landscape of Pilgrimage and Trade in Wadi Masila Yemen’ (2009) and is co-author of the ‘Atlas of Archaeological Survey in Governorate of Dhofar, Sultanate of Oman’ (2013). Read More Read Less