Peter Fibiger Bang is Associate Professor at the Saxo Institute of the University of Copenhagen.

Walter Schiedel is Dickason Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University.

Walter Ameling is Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cologne.
Peter Fibiger Bang is Associate Professor at the Saxo Institute of the University of Copenhagen.
Gojko Barjamovic is Assistant Professor of Assyriology at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen.
John Bennet is Professor Aegean Archaeology at the University of Sheffield.
Trevor Bryce is Professor Emeritus at the University of Queensland.
Steven Garfinkle is a professor of ancient history at Western Washington University.
John Haldon is Professor of History and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University.
Mogens Herman Hansen at the University of Copenhagen is a leading authority on Athenian democracy and the Greek polis.
John Ma was trained in ancient history in Geneva, Oxford, Paris, Hamburg and Princeton; he now teaches ancient history at Oxford University.
Emily Mackil is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.
Joseph Manning took his doctorate in Egyptology at the University of Chicago.
Ian Morris is Willard Professor of Classics and Professor of History at Stanford University.
Henrik Mouritsen is Professor of Roman history at King's College London.
Chase Robinson is Professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Walter Scheidel is Dickason Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University.
Seth Schwartz is Professor in the History and Classics Departments at Columbia University.
Josef Wiesehöfer is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Kiel.
Ian Wood is Professor of Early Medieval History at the University of Leeds.

"Oxford's distinguished series of handbooks on the ancient world continues to expand. This recent addition surveys the principal states in the ancient Near East and the Mediterranean from the fourth millennium BCE to the eighth century.... Each article provides an up-to-date overview of a state's political history and institutional structure and a select bibliography of current scholarship.... An excellent work. Essential."--S. M. Burstein, CHOICE