Matthew T. RutzMatthew Rutz is Assistant Professor of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies at Brown University. He works in the field of Assyriology, the interdisciplinary study of texts written in the cuneiform writing system from ancient Mesopotamia, speializing in the languages and cultures of this region with an emphasis on Akkadian (Babylonian/Assyrian) and Sumerian documents from the latter half of the second millennium BCE, the social and political history of Late Bronze Age Syria, and the study of ancient texts as archaeological objects. Read More Read Less