Sandra Heinsch is Associate Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the Leopold-Franzens University of Innsbruck. Her main research fields are the archaeology of Mesopotamia and Southern Caucasia in the 1st Millennium BCE. She is co-director of the "Armenian-Austrian Aramus Archaeological Project", "The Georgian-Austrian Archaeological Project of Khovle Gora", the "Iranian-Austrian Qara Zia Eddin Archaeological Project" in North-Western Iran and "Borsippa-Project" in Iraq.
Walter Kuntner is Postdoc at the Leopold-Franzens University of Innsbruck. His research area focuses on the archaeology of Upper Mesopotamia and the neighbouring areas as the Southern Caucasus and Anatolia in the 1st Millennium BCE. He is co-director of the "Armenian-Austrian Aramus Archaeological Project", "The Georgian-Austrian Archaeological Project of Khovle Gora" and "Iranian-Austrian Qara Zia Eddin Archaeological Project" in North-Western Iran.
Robert Rollinger is Professor of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the Leopold-Franzens University of Innsbruck. His main research areas are the history of the Ancient Near East and the Achaemenid Empire, contacts between the Aegean World and the Ancient Near East, ancient historiography, and the comparative history of empires. Recent publications include : Imperien in der Weltgeschichte.
Epochenübergreifende und globalhistorische Vergleiche (coedited ; 214) ; Mesopotamia in the Ancient World. Impact, Continuities, Parallels (coedited ; 215) ; Alexander und die großen Ströme. Die Flussüberquerungen im Lichte altorientalischer Pioniertechniken (213) ; Blackwell Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire (coedited ; 22).