Patty Civalleri is a historian and armchair archaeologist who has traveled for 17 years to the deepest corners of our ancient past in search of lost civilizations all over our planet. She enjoys the honor of serving on the Director’s Council of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), and as a Board Member of the Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies at California State University in Long Beach (CSULB). As a writer and photographer, she has also enjoyed the pleasure of writing and photographing for the Cotsen Institute’s prestigious journals, in addition to over 150 business and marketing clients around the country.