Rocio Da Riva Muñoz
Full Professor of Prehistory
Short biography
My research lines include Prehistory and Protohistory of the Ancient Near East; Archaeology of the Iron Age in Jordan and Lebanon; Archaeology and History of Mesopotamia; Political history of Babylonia in the First Millennium BCE; Neo-Babylonian royal inscriptions; Historiography of Mesopotamian Archaeology; Historiography of Archaeology during First World War in Arabia and NE Africa.
I studied in Madrid (Spain), Ghent (Belgium) and Erlangen (Germany), with scholarships of the Erasmus-ECTS Programme and Doctoral Fellowship Erasmus-PIC Programme. I also received a Doctoral Fellowship of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) to study at the University of Würzburg in Germany, where I obtained my PhD in Ancient Near Eastern Studies (Assyriology) in 2002.
Research interests
Researcher with numerous visits and research activities in universities and institutions in Europe, North America and the Middle East: British Museum (London, UK); Ashmolean Museum (Oxford, UK); National Archives (Kew, UK); Institut für Orientalistik. University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria); Institut voor Talen en Culturen van het Nabije Oosten en Noord-Afrika. University of Gent (Belgium); Institut für Außereuropäische Sprachen und Kulturen. Friedrich-Alexander Universität (Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Vorderasiatisches Museum and Altorientalisches Institut Freie Universität (Berlin, Germany); Frobenius Institut, Johan Von Goethe-Universität (Frankfurt aM, Germany); Ludwig-Maximilian Universität (Würzburg, Germany); Eberhard Karls Universität (Tübingen, Germany); School of Humanities. University of Western Australia (Nedlands, Australia); Ca Foscari University (Venice); University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia, USA); Oriental Institute, University of Chicago (United States); Department of Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Toronto (Canada); Istanbul Archaeological Museum (Turkey); Museum of Beirut, Directorate General of Antiquities, American University of Beirut (Lebanon); National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Armenian State University, and Yerevan State Pedagogical University after Khachatur Abovyan, Yerevan (Armenia); Chuo University, Tokyo (Japan); Yarmouk-University Irbid (Jordan) etc.
Selected publications
- Da Riva, R., 2002, Der Ebabbar-Tempel von Sippar in frühneubabylonischer Zeit (640-580 v.Chr.). Alter Orient und Altes Testament, 291. Münster, Ugarit Verlag.
- Da Riva, R., 2008, The Neo-Babylonian Royal Inscriptions: An Introduction. Guides for the Mesopotamian Textual Records (GMTR), 4. Münster, Ugarit Verlag.
- Da Riva, R., 2012, The Twin Inscriptions of Nebuchadnezzar at Brisa (Wadi esh-Sharbin, Lebanon): a Historical and Philological Study. Archiv für Orientforschung Bhft. 32. Horn, Berger & Söhne.
- Da Riva, R., 2013, The inscriptions of Nabopolassar, Amēl-Marduk and Neriglissar, Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records, 3. Berlin-Boston, Walter De Gruyter. [Scholarly Publishers Indicators ICEE 95.25].
- Da Riva, R., 2017, Arqueólogos, etnólogos y espías: La misión de Leo Frobenius en Arabia y Eritrea (1914-1915). Bellaterra Arqueología. Barcelona, Bellaterra. [Scholarly Publishers Indicators ICEE (Spain) 39.96].