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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

“Not many people know what an Assyriologist actually does,” he told her.

From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2024

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

At her left sat Herr Schotte, the Assyriologist, whose features were effectually concealed by the convergence of his hair and beard, and whose glasses were continually falling into his plate.

From The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Cather, Willa Sibert