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Assyriologist

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As·syr·i·ol·o·gy  (-sîr-l-j)
n.
The study of the ancient civilization and language of Assyria.

As·syri·olo·gist n.


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The earliest scripts from such civilizations as ancient Sumeria, Egypt, and China "were invented as systems - not through gradual evolution, but in quantum leaps in the history of communication," contends assyriologist Piotr Michalowski of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, who studies ancient Near Eastern cultures and languages.
 
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