Mario Liverani

 ( 1939 Births ) 

Mario Liverani (born 10 January 1939 in Rome), is an Italian historian and Professor of Ancient Near East History at the University of Rome La Sapienza. He is a member of many institutions, such as the American Oriental Society, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, and doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Copenhagen and the Autonomous University of Madrid.

• 2014 Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the "Arabic Culture in Other Languages" category for his book "Imagining Babylon"

• 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.
• (2025). 9781845531911, Equinox. ISBN 9781845531911
  (original italian edition Uruk: La Prima Città. Roma-Bari: Laterza, 1998).
• (2025). 9780415679060, Routledge. ISBN 9780415679060
• 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)

• Faculty of Humanities at the University of Rome La Sapienza