Marc Van De Mieroop

Marc Van De Mieroop (born 22 October 1956) is a noted Belgian Assyriologist and Egyptologist who has been full professor of Ancient Near Eastern history at Columbia University since 1996.

Born in Belgium to a prominent Flemish family who paternally descend from Jan I van Cuijk.

He taught at Yale and Oxford, later becoming a full professor at Columbia in 1996.

Van De Mieroop specializes the history of the Ancient Near East from the beginning of writing to the age of Alexander the Great, with a particular interest in the socio-economic and political history of the Ancient Near East.

In 2016 he held a fellowship from the ACLS for a project entitled, "Babylonian Cosmopolitanism and the Birth of Greek and Hebrew Literate Traditions.