The scholarly discipline that studies ancient Assyria, including its language, culture, history, archaeology, and written records.
From Assyria + -ology (Greek -logia, study or discourse). Combines the place name with the standard academic suffix for fields of study.
Assyriology relies heavily on cuneiform decipherment—and the story of how scholars learned to read clay tablets again after 2,000 years is one of the greatest detective stories in all of scholarship.
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