Assyriology

American  

[uh-seer-ee-ol-uh-jee] / əˌsɪər iˈɒl ə dʒi /

noun

1. the study of the history, language, etc., of the ancient Assyrians.

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Assyriology British  

/ əˌsɪrɪˈɒlədʒɪ /

noun

1. the study of the culture, history, and archaeological remains of ancient Assyria

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Other Word Forms

• Assyriological adjective
• Assyriologist noun

Etymology

Origin of Assyriology

First recorded in 1820–30; Assyri(a) + -o- + -logy

Example Sentences

"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 these materials, a new science commonly spoken of as Assyriology came into being, and a most important chapter of human history was brought to light.

From A History of Science — Volume 1 by Williams, Edward Huntington