CHICAGO — It was a monumental project with modest beginnings: a small group of scholars and some index cards. The plan was to explore a long-dead language that would reveal an ancient world of ...

(AINA) -- The Association Assyrophile de France has announced the completion of the first phase of the online Assyrian dictionary project. The dictionary is available to students, Assyrians and all ...

The name of the dictionary was taken from the name of the first library in the Assyrian history. This is what author Awia Oraha Khnanya from Melbourne said, adding that he found students struggle to ...

A dictionary of a dead language not used for two millenia has finally been completed after academics spent 90 years painstakingly deciphering ancient words scrawled on clay and stone tablets. Robert ...

Large press camera, late nineteenth century. From The History of Oxford University Press. Dictionary projects can famously, and sometimes fatally, overrun. In the nineteenth century especially, ...

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THE classification of objects was a favourite pursuit of Assyrian scribes, as is shown by the long lists preserved in Ashurbanipal's library at Nineveh. Such texts were generally bilingual, that is, ...

"Like a vessel carrying carnelian or lapis, she is filled with carnelian or lapis -- but I do not know whether the child within her is carnelian or lapis." In this ancient metaphor, and in the ...

An ambitious project to identify, explain and provide citations for the words written in cuneiform on clay tablets and carved in stone by Babylonians, Assyrians and others in Mesopotamia between 2500 ...