Mario Liverani (born 10 January 1939 in Rome), is an Italian historian and Professor of
Ancient Near East
The ancient Near East was home to many cradles of civilization, spanning Mesopotamia, Egypt, Iran (or Persia), Anatolia and the Armenian highlands, the Levant, and the Arabian Peninsula. As such, the fields of ancient Near East studies and Nea ...
History at the
University of Rome La Sapienza
The Sapienza University of Rome (), formally the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", abbreviated simply as Sapienza ('Wisdom'), is a Public university, public research university located in Rome, Italy. It was founded in 1303 and is ...
. He is a member of many institutions, such as the
American Oriental Society
The American Oriental Society is a learned society that encourages basic research in the languages and literatures of the Near East and Asia. It was chartered under the laws of Massachusetts on September 7, 1842. It is one of the oldest learned ...
, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, and doctor Honoris Causa of the
University of Copenhagen
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and the
Autonomous University of Madrid.
Awards and honors
*2014
Sheikh Zayed Book Award
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award is a literary award presented yearly to writers, intellectuals, publishers whose writings and scholarly publications contributed to Arab cultural, literary and social life. The award has been described as “the 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. (original italian edition ''Oltre la Bibbia: Storia Antica di Israele.'' Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2003).
*''Antico Oriente: Storia, Società, Economia.'' Biblioteca Storica Laterza. Rome: Laterza, 2011.
* (original italian edition ''Uruk: La Prima Città.'' Roma-Bari: Laterza, 1998).
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* ''Imagining Babylon: The Modern Story of an Ancient City'' (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER) Book 11), (original italian edition ''Immaginare Babele: Due secoli di studi sulla città orientale antica.'' Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2013)
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References
External links
Faculty of Humanitiesat the University of Rome La Sapienza
1939 births
Living people
Academic staff of the Sapienza University of Rome
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Italian orientalists