Ilan Sharon

Ilan Sharon is the co-director of the excavation at Tel Dor, where he has been on staff since the project began in 1980. He began work as an excavator when he was 16, but did not pursue it as a career until nine years later; he earned a degree in mathematics in the meantime.

Dr. Sharon is currently Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In addition to the Tel Dor excavation, he is also studying the Hellenization of the Levant, absolute dating of the early Iron Age in Israel and mathematical characterization of artifact profiles.