Shimon Gibson
Shimon Gibson is a British-born archaeologist living in North Carolina, where he is a Professor of Practice in the Department of History at University of North Carolina at Charlotte.Life
Gibson obtained a PhD in landscape archaeology in the southern Levant from the Institute of Archaeology at University College London.
Gibson was the lead archaeologist excavating a wilderness cave he associated with John the Baptist in 2000 and later wrote The Cave of John the Baptist. He led a team that found a 10-line ritual cup at Mount Zion.
He is the editor of The Illustrated Dictionary & Concordance of the Bible and was co-editor with Avraham Negev of the Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land. In his The Final Days of Jesus: The Archaeological Evidence he interpreted archaeological data sources to document the activities in the days leading to the crucifixion of Jesus.
Gibson has appeared in a number of biblical archaeology documentaries.
