Dominique Charpin (born 12 June 1954, in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French Assyriologist, professor at the Collège de France, and corresponding member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, specialized in the "Old-Babylonian" period.

Born on 12 June 1954 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Charpin was in high school when a trip to Turkey and a stay in Syria and Lebanon in the following year determined his vocation.

[1] As an assistant at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University from 1976, Charpin integrates the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in 1985 as research fellow, then returned to Paris 1 in 1988 as a teacher.

[2] Mesopotamia constitutes his main focus particularly towards the old Babylonian period or "amorrite"; it is the great era of Mesopotamian civilization, with Hammurabi on which he signed the first book in French in 2003.

[1] A correspondent of the Académie des inscriptions et beaux-lettres since 30 March 2012, Dominique Charpin was appointed professor at the Collège de France, holder of the chair "Mesopotamian civilization" from 1 January 2014.