High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Katharina Galor is a German-born Israeli archaeologist specializing in ancient Israel-Palestine and Syria, mainly focusing on the Roman and Byzantine periods. She currently teaches at Brown University, affiliated with the Artemis A.W. and Martha Sharp Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World and the Program in Judaic Studies. Exploring the connections between the material record, ethnicity, and religious affiliation, she has worked on excavations within the Levant at Qumran, Sepphoris, Tiberias, and Jerusalem. Her publications entail topics ranging from the archaeological context of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, the successive stages of habitation in ancient Jerusalem, town planning, water installations, mosaics, as well as sacred, civic and domestic architecture.