The research group is composed of: Ludovico Portuese (Assistant Professor of Archaeology and Art History of the Ancient Near East, Università degli Studi di Messina), Annunziata Rositani (Associate Professor of Assyriology, Università degli Studi di Messina), Holly Pittman (Professor of Archaeology and Art History of the Ancient Near East, University of Pennsylvania), David Mulder (PhD candidate in the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania).