Definition of Assyriologist in English:
Assyriologist
noun
See Assyriology
‘Obviously this relatively recent discovery still has to be thoroughly evaluated and assessed by Egyptologists, Assyriologists and archaeologists in general.’
- ‘One Assyriologist writes, ‘Sennacherib stands out among Assyrian kings as a man of exceptional enterprise and open-mindedness'.’
- ‘First of all, in no chronology proposed by biblical scholars or Assyriologists does the siege of Samaria begin in 722.’
- ‘In 1872 George Smith, a young Assyriologist at the British Museum, discovered that one of these tablets told the story of a great flood that had covered Earth.’
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