Karen Radner is Professor of Ancient Near Eastern History at University College London.

Alice Bencivenni teaches Greek history and epigraphy at the University of Bologna.

Simon Corcoran is a Senior Research Fellow at University College London.

Michael Jursa is Professor of Assyriology at the University of Vienna.

Amelie Kuhrt recently retired from her post as Professor in Ancient Near Eastern History at University College London.

Jana Mynárová teaches at the Czech Institute of Egyptology at the Charles University Prague.

Karen Radner is Professor of Ancient Near Eastern History at University College London.

Mark Weeden is Lecturer in Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

"Each chapter in this ambitious volume is of high quality, well cited, and well illustrated, and the book as a whole is a welcome contribution to scholarship on the means and modes of official correspondence in ancient states." -- David M. Ratzan and Jonathan Valk, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, Journal of Roman Archaeology

"This wide-ranging study of state correspondence in the ancient world is a landmark volume that will be of enormous interest to ancient historians, Classicists, Egyptologists, Assyriologists, and all students of antiquity. It is an authoritative collection that provides an overarching perspective not readily available in more specialist treatments of the topic."--D. T. Potts, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University

"Overall, this book fills a gap in scholarship and is exemplary for its scope, drawing together evidence from different cultures across nearly two millennia, while generally maintaining cohesion. Each chapter introduces the context, making it accessible to a wide audience. The writing is concise, clear, and well structured with plenty of subchapters...The book is a valuable asset to scholarship and should find a place in every good library." -- Bryn Mawr Classical Review