Vincent DerocheVINCENT DEROCHE is a former alumnus of the Ecole Normale Superieure, former member of the Ecole francaise d'Archeologie d'Athenes, researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), currently Directeur de recherche, Directeur adjont or the UMR 8167, "Orient & Mediterranee", for the part "Monde byzantin". Elected to the chair of "Litterature byzantine" at Sorbonne Universite, and to the chair "Christianisme byzantin" at the Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris). MARIA GRAZIA MASETTI-ROUAULT, a specialist of Late Bronze - Iron Age Mesopotamian cultures, is Directeur d'etudes (Professor) in the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes PSL, Sorbonne University in Paris, where she helds the Chair of " Religions of the Syro- Mesopotamian societies: Archaeology and History ". Since 2005, she is co-director of the Syro-French Archaeological Mission in Tell Masaikh and its region (Syrian Lower Middle Euphrates area) and, since 2015, she is also Director of the French Archaeological Mission in Qasr Shemamok (Iraqi Kurdistan). CHRISTOPHE NICOLLE is an archaeologist specialist of pre-classical Middle East archaeology, working in different regions (Northern Mesopotamia, Northern Levant, South Levant), participating or directing several excavations or surveys over periods ranging mainly from the Chalcolithic to the Late Bronze Age. Former member of the French Institute of the Near East (IFPO), researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), he works actually in a team of the College de France (Paris). Read More Read Less