Associate Professor Gil Davis is the Director of the Ancient Israel Program based at the Australian Catholic University which offers Australia’s only full Major dedicated to the Archaeology and History of Ancient Israel and a Minor in Hebrew.
Gil runs annual excavations in Israel for university students, high school teachers, and academic colleagues. The program’s key area of archaeological research is the formative years of the Kingdom of Judah.
Gil has excavated for many years with Professor Yossi Garfinkel from Hebrew University. He also runs a school outreach program providing resources on ancient history, studies of religion, and combatting antisemitism.
Gil’s main research interests are archaeometallurgy and numismatics (coins). He has published extensively especially on the silver ore sources of ancient money and is currently co-authoring an important study of Ancient Athens. In 2022-23, he was also a Visiting Professor at l’École normale supérieure de Lyon.