Assyriologist
- a word derived from Assyriology.
Example Sentences
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His colleague in this translation was the eminent Assyriologist Jacob Dahl, who lends historical authority to Mr. Armitage’s poetical gifts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Mercury retrograde was probably first documented by Babylonian astronomers around the 7th century B.C., says Mathieu Ossendrijver, a historian of ancient science, Assyriologist and astrophysicist at the Freie Universität Berlin.
From National Geographic ● Aug. 24, 2023
One scholar who offers a different idea is the French Assyriologist Jean- Jacques Glassner.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
“It’s like a horse race or a running race, reduced to miniature,” Irving Finkel, an Assyriologist at the British Museum, said.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 26, 2019
It is amusing to read the naïve comment of a distinguished Assyriologist, that tablets such as these prove how careful, and how long continued had been the observations upon which they were based.
From The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture by Maunder, E. Walter (Edward Walter)
