Cyrus, George

Georg Cyrus studied Prehistoric Archaeology at the Free University of Berlin for his Bachelor's and Master's degrees until 2016. He then worked in the Tehran department of the German Archaeological Institute. He successfully defended his thesis in 2022 at the Institute for Southwest Asian Archaeology at Freie Universität Berlin. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University at the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO) from 2022 to 2024, where he focussed on the lower classes of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.