Huge dictionary project completed after 90 years

Wednesday, June 8, 2011 - 17:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

An ambitious project to identify, explain and provide citations for the words written in cuneiform on clay tablets and carved in stone by Babylonians, Assyrians and others in Mesopotamia between 2500 B.C. and A.D. 100 has been completed after 90 years of labor, the University of Chicago announced June 5.

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