Mario Liverani (born 10 January 1939 in Rome), is an Italian historian and Professor of

Ancient Near East The ancient Near East was the home of early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia (modern Iraq, southeast Turkey, southwest Iran and northeastern Syria), ancient Egypt, ancient Iran ( Elam, ...

History at the

University of Rome La Sapienza The Sapienza University of Rome ( it, Sapienza – Università di Roma), also called simply Sapienza or the University of Rome, and formally the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", is a public research university located in Rome, Ita ...

. He is a member of many institutions, such as the

American Oriental Society The American Oriental Society was chartered under the laws of Massachusetts on September 7, 1842. It is one of the oldest learned societies in America, and is the oldest devoted to a particular field of scholarship. The Society encourages basi ...

, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, and doctor Honoris Causa of the

University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen ( da, Københavns Universitet, KU) is a prestigious public research university in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia after Uppsala Unive ...

and the

Autonomous University of Madrid The Autonomous University of Madrid ( es, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; UAM), commonly known as simply la Autónoma, is a Spanish public university located in Madrid, Spain. The university was founded in 1968 alongside the Autonomous Univers ...

Awards and honors

*2014

Sheikh Zayed Book Award The Sheikh Zayed Book Award is a literary award begun in the UAE. It is presented yearly to "Arab writers, intellectuals, publishers as well as young talent whose writings and translations of humanities have scholarly and objectively enriched Arab ...

in the "Arabic Culture in Other Languages" category for his book "Imagining Babylon"

Selected works

*''International Relations in the Ancient Near East, 1600-1100 BC.'' Studies in Diplomacy. New York: Palgrave, 2001. *''Myth and Politics in Ancient Near Eastern Historiography''. Written in co-operation with Zainab Bahrani. Studies in Egyptology and the Ancient Near East. London: Equinox, 2004. *''Israel's History And the History of Israel''. Translated by Chiara Peri and Philip R. Davies. Bible World. London: Equinox, 2005. *''Antico Oriente: Storia, Società, Economia.'' Biblioteca Storica Laterza. Rome: Laterza, 2011. * * * ''Imagining Babylon: The Modern Story of an Ancient City'' (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER) Book 11),

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