Dr. Tom Davis has forty years of experience as an archaeologist, working extensively in Cyprus, the Near East, Egypt, Central Asia, and the United States. He started his archaeological career as a professional archaeologist for a private company in the USA from 1991-2003. He next served (2003-2011) as Director of the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (CAARI) in Nicosia, Cyprus, one of the premier archaeological research centers in the Eastern Mediterranean. Before coming to Lipscomb University, Tom was a Professor of Archaeology from 2011-2020 at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth Texas. Dr. Davis currently directs the Lanier Center excavations at the early Christian site of Kourion (Cyprus). He also serves as Project Co-Director and Field Director, of the Ilyn Balik Expedition, Kazakhstan, as Project Coordinator for the Recordation Project of the West Wall of the Cour de la Cachette in the Temple of Karnak, Luxor Egypt, and as Co-director for the Nuri Pyramid Project in Sudan. Dr. Davis has lectured extensively in the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Australia.
Dr Davis sadly died in September 2025. Click here to read his obituary.
In an article that he wrote for our THink magazine (now the World of the Bible Magazine), he spoke about the hope that he holds through death:
“If you’re a pagan and you die there’s nothing left, you’ve lost it all, the gods have failed you. But death is not the end if you’re a Christian. Death is horrifying, but it’s not the end and it’s not fully negative.” [. . .]“As a Christian I may die but I’m still in Christ, just like the guy in the earthquake house [that he was excavating at the time]. I do believe I will meet him one day. Of course, he’ll probably be mad at me for digging him up, but that’s another issue.”