Dirk Booms Editor & Author

Dirk Booms and Peter John Higgs curated the 2016 British Museum exhibition, Sicily: culture and conquest. Dirk Booms received his PhD from the University of Cambridge, working on the Roman emperors’ self-representation in the art and architecture of their villas. He has lectured at Cambridge and Oxford, and was Roman curator at the British Museum from 2012 to 2017. Peter John Higgs was awarded his PhD from the University of Liverpool and has worked at the British Museum since 1993. He curated the British Museum exhibition Cleoptara of Egypt as well as the travelling exhibition Agon: Athletes, Warriors and Heroes in Ancient Greece. He has published widely on ancient monuments and sculpture.