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[7] [8] Today, alternate terms such as "cuneiform studies" or "study of the Ancient Near East" are also used. [1] [2] Originally Assyriology referred primarily to the study of the texts in the Assyrian language discovered in quantity in the north of modern-day Iraq, ancient Assyria, following their initial discovery at Khorsabad in 1843.
Assyrian cuneiform: Contains what is thought to be the earliest known picture of a biblical figure: possibly Jehu son Omri (m Ia-ú-a mar m Hu-um-ri-i), or Jehu's ambassador, kneeling at the feet of Shalmaneser III. COS 2.113F / ANET 278–281 Saba'a Stele: Istanbul Archaeology Museums: 1905, Saba'a: c.800 BC: Assyrian cuneiform
Cuneiform [note 1] is a logo-syllabic writing system that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Near East. [3] The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the beginning of the Common Era. [4] Cuneiform scripts are marked by and named for the characteristic wedge-shaped impressions (Latin: cuneus) which form their ...
The Behistun inscription was to the decipherment of cuneiform what the Rosetta Stone (discovered in 1799) was to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs in 1822. [ 42 ] Rawlinson successfully completed the decipherment of Old Persian cuneiform.
The following is a list of the world's oldest surviving physical documents. Each entry is the most ancient of each language or civilization. For example, the Narmer Palette may be the most ancient from Egypt, but there are many other surviving written documents from Egypt later than the Narmer Palette but still more ancient than the Missal of Silos.
Joachim Menant (French, 1820–1899), lawyer and Orientalist known for his studies on cuneiform inscriptions. Cécile Michel (French, born 1962), epigrapher and archaeologist who works on deciphering the cuneiform tablets discovered at Kültepe.
Structure discovered in Jerusalem's City of David dates back to the First Temple, study finds. Greg Wehner. January 14, 2025 at 6:21 AM.
The first published group of Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions were discovered in the winter of 1904–1905 in Sinai by Hilda and Flinders Petrie. These ten inscriptions, plus an eleventh published by Raymond Weill in 1904 from the 1868 notes of Edward Henry Palmer, [17] were reviewed in detail, and numbered (as 345–355), by Alan Gardiner in 1916. [18]