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The Buried Cities of Assyria Summary
1,658 words, approx. 6 pages During the nineteenth century, archaeological discoveries in the Middle East changed the way scholars thought about the history of Western civilization. The translation of the ancient languages of Mesopotamia coincided with the spectacular excavations...
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Assyriology Information
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 Assyriology is the linguistic, historical and archaeological study of ancient Mesopotamia and neighbouring cultures which used cuneiform writing. The field covers not just Assyria but also that nation's eventual conqueror, Babylonia and the predecessor...



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 Near Eastern Archaeology
W.F. Albright & assyriology
03/01/2002: 3,814 words, approx. 13 pages Few scholars of the ancient Near East have enjoyed the influence wielded by William Foxwell Albright, both during his lifetime and after his death. His command of Semitic philology, Biblical studies, Near Eastern archaeology, Egyptology, Assyriology, South Arabian, comparative religion, and even Classical studies,...
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 The Boston Globe
Thorkild Jacobsen, was professor of Assyriology at Harvard; at 88
05/06/1993: 533 words, approx. 2 pages It was an era when T.E. Lawrence -- Lawrence of Arabia -- was collecting his memoirs of war and, on this side of the Atlantic, Eliot Ness was about to declare war on Chicago's gangland. The year was 1930. Thorkild Jacobsen, 27 years...


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