Wenrui Pan

Wenrui is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Ancient Mesopotamian Studies. Her research interests include ancient Mesopotamian literature, religion, and history from the third to the second millennium BCE. She specializes in Sumerian grammar and literature, with a particular focus on the Old Babylonian period.

She gained her MA degree in World History at Fudan University, with a concentration on Assyriology. Based on royal inscriptions and hymns, her MA thesis examined the kingship and royal ideology of the Third Dynasty of Ur.