Sunil Gupta is former Director of the Allahabad Museum, a national level museum under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. Post retirement, he served as Officer on Special Duty at the Prime Ministers Museum, New Delhi. Dr. Gupta has been visiting scholar at Ghent University (Belgium), the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin) and the Centre for the World in the Viking Age, Uppsala University (Sweden). Dr. Gupta has published extensively on national and international platforms and is the editor of the Journal of Indian Ocean Archaeology, published by the Indian Archaeological Society