Paolo Matthiae
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Paolo Matthiae is Professor of Archaeology and History of Art of the Ancient Near East in the University of Rome La Sapienza; he has been Director of the Ebla Expedition since 1963 -in fact its discoverer-, and has published many articles and books about Ebla, and about the History of Art of Mesopotamia and Syria in general.
He is a member of institutions as the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome), the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and the Deutsches Archaologisches Institut, and is doctor Honoris Causa of the Autonomous University of Madrid.
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- Ebla: An empire rediscovered