Ariel M BaggAriel M. Bagg, born in 1959, is extraordinary Professor at the Institute of Assyriology of the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg (Germany). He studied Civil Engineering and History in Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Assyriology in Tubingen (Germany),where he got his PhD in 1997. He wrote a post-doctoral qualification work (Habilitation) about the historical geography of the Levant in Neo-Assyrian times. His main research areas are the history of technology and the historical geography of the Ancient Near East. Read More Read Less