Person
Researcher
- Greek (Ancient and Byzantine)
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail rune.rattenborgklass.luse
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20
I am an archaeologist and assyriologist specialising in the early history and archaeology of the Middle East (ca. 3,000 - 0 BCE). My education includes advanced degrees in Assyriology from the University of Copenhagen (BA 2009, MA 2012) and a doctorate in Archaeology from the University of Durham (PhD 2017). As of 2025, I am a researcher with Echoes of History(DESCRYPT), a multidisciplinary, research programme involving researchers from Sweden, Oslo, Germany, Spain, and Hungary. The project is funded by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation for 2025-32 (grant no. M24-0028).
I am an associate of the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative(CDLI), the global reference index for cuneiform inscriptions. I am also the Co-PI of the Access to Cuneiform Texts (ACT), a ground-breaking effort to develop an Arabic-language user interface of the CDLI to bring back, through digital means, a critical part of Middle East cultural heritage now spread all over the world.
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My profile in Lund University research portalEducation
- BA in Assyriology with an elective in Near Eastern Archaeology, University of Copenhagen (2009)
- MA in Assyriology, University of Copenhagen (2012)
- PhD in Archaeology, Durham University (2017)
- Docent in Assyriology, Uppsala University (2025)
Awards
- Echoes of History: Analysis and Decipherment of Historical Writings (SEK 53,033,000). Riksbankens Jubileumsfond Programmes, grant no. M24-0028. With B. Megyesi (primary), A. Fornés, M. Héder, R. Heil, L. Kang, N. Kopal, B. Lang, V . Mikhalev, E. Pettersson, M. Waldispüh
- Access to Cuneiform Texts (£5,740). British Institute for the Study of Iraq. With É. Pagé-Perron (primary), J. Jotheri, and H. Aqeel.
- Access to Cuneiform Texts (£5,000). General Fund for Assyriology, University of Oxford. With É. Pagé-Perron (primary), J. Jotheri, and H. Aqeel.
- Ancient Middle East Nordic Network (€ 15,315). Nordplus Higher Education, project IDNPHE-2022/10050. With T. Richter (primary), N. Anfinset, A. Dorn, A. Maravela, S. Svärd.
- Catalogue of the Tal’afar Survey, Iraq, 1964-1973 (SEK 41,400). Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities Gösta och Susi Enboms Donationsfond, grant no. FS2021-0058.
- Geomapping Landscapes of Writing (GLoW): Large-Scale Spatial Analysis of the Cuneiform Corpus (c. 3400 BCE to 100 CE) (SEK 7,779,000). Riksbankens Jubileumsfond Mixed Methods, grant no. MXM19-1160:1. With J. Andersson (primary) and S. Nett.
- TextWorlds: Global Mapping of Texts From the Pre-Modern World (SEK 332,460). Centre for Integrated Research on Culture and Society Research Networks, Uppsala University.
- Honorary Research Fellowship (2018-2020), Department of Archaeology, University of Durham
- Durham Doctoral Scholarship (£42,000). Durham University Faculty of Social Sciences and Health
Researcher
- Greek (Ancient and Byzantine)
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail rune.rattenborgklass.luse
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20