Wayne Horowitz (born Roslyn, New York) is an archeologist and academic. He specialises in the ancient Near East and Assyriology. Activities Wayne Horowitz received his BA from Brandeis University. He completed his Ph.D. thesis (this later leading to the work Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography) at Birmingham University under the supervision of W. G. Lambert. Horowitz lectures at the Rothberg School for Overseas Students in the Department of Assyriology. Prof. Horowitz is leading a team making available in publication the decipherment of a law code fragment (18th-17th century BCE), the first found in Israel that shows features similar to the law code of Hammurabi. (From a website showing Copyright 2008 - 2011 AFHU ) Publications His published works based on Sumerian and Akkadian texts written in cuneiform, these containing writings which in some way consider the structure of the Cosmos, are considered authoritative. Books with Rita Watson, Writing science before the Greeks: a naturalistic analysis of the Babylonian astronomical treatise MUL.APIN (2011) Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography. Winona Lake, ID: Eisenbrauns, The Astrolabes and Related Texts: Mesopotamian Astronomy Before 1000 B.C. Vienna: , Beiheft (supplement series), in preparation (as of...?) with Takayoshi Oshima, Cuneiform in Canaan: Cuneiform Sources from the Land of Israel in Ancient Times, the Israel Exploration Society Jerusalem, 2006. with P. Watson, A Catalogue of Cuneiform Tablets in the Birmingham City Museum (Volume 2) 1993; (Volume 1) 1986. Articles The Shofar and the Ancient Near East (Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem exhibition, September 2011) with Takayoshi Oshima and Avraham Winitzer, Hazor 17, the forthcoming IEJ, in press with Takayoshi Oshima, Hazor: a cuneiform city in Canaan: a retrospective and look forward in 6 ICAANE (2010)(6th International Congress of archeology in the Ancient Near East) Hazor 16, the forthcoming IEJ, in press, New Light on an Old Find from Hazor, in M. Cogan and D. Kahn eds., Treasures on Camels' Humps, Historical and Literary Studies from the Ancient Near East Presented to Israel Eph'al, Jerusalem, 2008, pp. 99–103 ","Hazor 15: Letter Fragment from Hazor, IEJ 57/1 (2007), pp. 34–41", with Takayoshi Oshima and Siegfried Kreuzer, Die Keilschrifttexte von Taanach/ Tell Tacannek', in ibid., pp. 85–99, with Takayoshi Oshima, The Taanach Cuneiform Tablets, A Retrospective, in Siegfried Kreuzer ed., Taanach/Tell Tacannek: 100 Jahre Forschungen zur Archäologie, zur Geschichte, zu den Fundobjekten und zu den Keilschrifttexten, (Wiener Alltestamentliche Studien, Bd. 5), Frankfurt am Main, 2006, pp. 77–84,New Discovery on an Old Finding, in Qadmoniyot vol.