Charles Burney was educated at Eton and King s College, Cambridge. He was a Scholar and Fellow of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara from 1954-6, when he conducted archaeological surveys over wide areas of Turkey and later of north-west Iran.
David Marshall Lang was educated at Monkton Combe and St John s College, Cambridge. IN 1944 he was appointed acting Vice-Consul in Tabriz. He has lectured in Caucasian languages at Cambridge and various Universities around the world.
