On a sticky September day two years ago, I first visited the Yale Babylonian collection. I was on assignment for the News, and Babylon was far from my mind; all I could think about was the set of ...
In 2026, the Digital Applications in Assyriology Nordic Summer School will return to Helsinki, Finland. The fourth edition of the summer school will be hosted at the University of Helsinki with ...
The Digital Applications in Assyriology Nordic Summer School will take place at Uppsala University, Sweden, from Monday 1 - Friday 5 August 2022. The school is jointly organised by the project and the ...
William W. Hallo, the William M. Laffan Professor Emeritus of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature, died on March 27 at the age of 87. William W. Hallo Hallo spent his career studying, teaching, and ...
The theme of the conference was "The Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient Near East," which places the Ancient Near East with its knowledge and culture stored in the early writing systems along with ...
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