After 90 Years, a Dictionary of an Ancient World (fwd link)

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After 90 Years, a Dictionary of an Ancient World

By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
Published: June 6, 2011

Ninety years in the making, the 21-volume dictionary of the language
of ancient Mesopotamia and its Babylonian and Assyrian dialects,
unspoken for 2,000 years but preserved on clay tablets and in stone
inscriptions deciphered over the last two centuries, has finally been
completed by scholars at the University of Chicago.

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