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Stephen Mitchell, emeritus professor of ancient history at the University of Exeter, is Chairman of the British Institute at Ankara and a Fellow of the British Academy. His research has concentrated on the history, archaeology and epigraphy of Asia Minor with a recent emphasis on early Christianity and the religious traditions of Late Antiquity and the Byzantine period. David French, who died in 2017, was the Director of the British Institute at Ankara from 1968 to 1994. His research interests and archaeological field work in Turkey ranged from prehistory to the Ottoman period, and culminated in a comprehensive topographical and epigraphical study of the Roman Roads and Milestones of Asia Minor..Stephen Mitchell, emeritus professor of ancient history at the University of Exeter, is Chairman of the British Institute at Ankara and a Fellow of the British Academy. His research has concentrated on the history, archaeology and epigraphy of Asia Minor with a recent emphasis on early Christianity and the religious traditions of Late Antiquity and the Byzantine period. David French, who died in 2017, was the Director of the British Institute at Ankara from 1968 to 1994. His research interests and archaeological field work in Turkey ranged from prehistory to the Ottoman period, and culminated in a comprehensive topographical and epigraphical study of the Roman Roads and Milestones of Asia Minor.