Assyriology
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"Using our AI-supported platform, we managed to identify 30 other manuscripts that belong to the rediscovered hymn -- a process that would formerly have taken decades," said Jiménez, who teaches at LMU's Institute of Assyriology.
From Science Daily • Nov. 11, 2025
Dr. Arboll, in turn, had been looking for a partner that shared his interest in Assyriology, the study of Mesopotamian languages and the sources written in them.
From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2024
There were precursors to Hammurabi's laws, explains Dr Frances Reynolds, Assyriology expert at Oxford University, but the stele and 130,000 clay tablet documents from the period establish the king as a "fantastic administrator".
From BBC • Sep. 24, 2012
This specific cache is still under study by Benjamin Studevent-Hickman, a lecturer on Assyriology at Harvard, but he has already determined that the central figure these tablets describe is named Arad-mu.
From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2010
Assyriology leads me to mention M. and Mme.
From My Memoirs by Steinheil, Marguerite
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