Fabien Balestra received his MA from the University of Montpellier III and his MPhil in Commercial Archaeology from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. He is currently working as a junior archaeologist at the Department of Val-de-Marne (France). His research interest focuses on the Islamic world as well as the Aegean and the Egyptian Bronze Ages. He has contributed to many excavations in France, Egypt, Turkey, the Maldives, Tanzania, and Saudi Arabia