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After 90 Years, a Dictionary of an Ancient World

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June 6, 2011 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/07/science/07dictionary.html?ref=science By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD M. Spencer Green/Associated Press Martha Roth, dean of humanities at the University of Chicago, and Gil Stein, director of the Oriental Institute there.   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 [...]

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