Having made aerial recordings by balloon and radio-controlled cameras at over 130 archeaological sites and monumens in the Mediterranean and Near East, Professor Myers will offer a selection of those images which are the most puzzling, instructive, or spectacular. He will offer details from a number of sites both to demonstrate the utility and beauty of aerial photographs. The presentation will also show some of the salient heatures of Minoan palaces and towns, Mycenaean citadels and tombs, Geek temples and sanctuaries, and some notable ancient cities. These last include Sardis, captial of King Croesus of Lydia; Gordion, where Kind Midas of Phrygia lies under his great funeral mound; Petra, the canyon fortified "rose-red" city in Jordan; and Nicaea (modern Iznik in Turkey) with its three miles of double wall, triple gates, and two hundred towers.

Professor Myers, presently affliated with the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, has spent twenty-one years since 1973 working abraod with his wife and partner, Eleanor Emlem Myers, developing equipment and methods for aerial site recording and exploration useing tethered blimp and radio-controlled cameras. His work has carried him to Italy, Sicily, Greece, Crete, Yugoslavia, Israel, Turkey, and Jordan.

Prof. Myers' publications include: The Aerial Atlas of Ancient Crete, Myers, Myers, and Cadogan, eds., Univ. of California Press, 1992; "Bird's Eye View of the Ancient World", Archaeology 46:1 (1993) 40-51; and "Low Altitude Photography", American Journal of Archaeology 99:1 (1995)85-87.

(The two images above are borrowed from The Aerial Atlas of Ancient Crete, Myers, Myers, and Cadogan, eds., Univ. of California Press, 1992.)