How to be an Assyriologist? : Inaugural Lecture delivered on Thursday 2

Unlike works inherited from Greek or Roman Antiquity, writings from Mesopotamian civilization all come from excavations. Assyriologists work with clay tablets engraved with cuneiform characters. They piece together fragments of texts and organize them chronologically and geographically to gradually...

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Main Author: Dominique Charpin (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Collège de France 2017
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