Authors

Giorgio Buccellati (“In Search of Hurrian Urkesh”) is Professor Emeritus of the Ancient Near East and History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He also heads the International Institute for Mesopotamian Area Studies. His co-author and wife, Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati, is a professor of art history at UCLA. The Buccellatis have directed excavations at Tell Mozan since 1984, and they are the joint authors of Mozan I: The Soundings of the First Two Seasons (Undena Publications, 1988), among other publications.

Director of the German Oriental Society, Gernot Wilhelm (“When a Mittani Princess Joined Pharaoh’s Harem”) is a professor of oriental philology at the University of Würzburg, Germany. He further explores the mysteries of the Hurrians in The Hurrians (Aris and Phillips, 1989) and Studies on the Culture and Civilization of Nuzi and the Hurrians (forthcoming), which he co-edited.