In L'art du siège néo-assyrien, Fabrice De Backer offers a synthesis of all the means, machines, people and tactics employed to take or defend a city during the Neo-Assyrian period.
Fabrice De Backer, Ph.D. (2010), Université Catholique de Louvain, and Ph. Diss. (2010), Université de Strasbourg, has published many articles on military tactics, armours and weaponry in the ancient Near East, along with a monograph on Neo-Assyrian shields, and another on northern Mesopotamian jewelry during the 3rd Millenium B.C.
