GEORGE F. BASS, founding president of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University, is the first person ever to excavate an ancient shipwreck in its entirety on the sea bed. His numerous awards include the presidentially bestowed National Medal of Science. The first volume of his study entitled Serce Limani: An Eleventh-Century Shipwreck, Vol. 1: The Ship and Its Anchorage, Crew, and Passengers was published by Texas A&M University Press in 2004. ROBERT H. BRILL is author of Chemical Analyses of Early Glasses: Volumes 1 and 2 and coauthor of Glass and Glassmaking in Ancient Mesopotamia. BERTA LLEDO is an archaeologist, database manager, and graphic designer on the staff of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology - Turkey.