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, now a professor of Assyriology at the university, said, “When I heard that, I knew she was a keeper.”
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
Thanks to their efforts, the new science of Assyriology came into being, and before long the message of the Assyrian books had ceased to be an enigma.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
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