Marc Van De Mieroop is Professor of History at Columbia University. He is the author of many books on various aspects of the histories of the ancient Near East and Egypt, including The Ancient Mesopotamian City (1997, 1999) , King Hammurabi of Babylon (Blackwell, 2004) , The Eastern Mediterranean in the Age of Ramesses II (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), and A History of Ancient Egypt (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) .
For these reasons and for many more, this volume deserves considerable praise and lasting admiration. (RBECS.org, 27 December 2015)