Wayne Horowitz is an archeologist of the ancient Near East and Professor teaching specifically within the field Assyriology. 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 B.C.E.), the first found in Israel that shows features similar to the law code of Hammurabi.