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

• Yazar: Dominique Charpin (auth)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Collège de France 2017
• Konular: Biography & True Stories; Mesopotamia; Ancient Near East; Egyptology; assyriology; archaeology; philology; cuneiform writing; history of civilizations
• Online Erişim: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...