News Roundup: The Completion of the Assyrian Dictionary

A selection of the reporting on the completion of The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

The definition of persistence
A 90-year project chronicling the ancient Akkadian language culminates in the 21st volume of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary.

By Jeff Carroll

Chicago Assyrian Dictionary hits 100,000 downloads
William Harms
August 1, 2011

Do you speak assiro?

La Stampa

15/06/2011 

Assyrian Dictionary Project completed after ninety years

GizMag

By Paul Ridden
06:47 June 14, 2011
  
Scholars finally crack code for 2000-year-old language
Catholic Online - ‎Jun 14, 2011‎

Dictionary of dead language complete after 90 years

By Cordelia Hebblethwaite BBC News

13 June 2011


‎The sound of ancient Mesopotamia
BBC News - ‎Jun 13, 2011 

The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary is finished!

MobyLives13 June 2011

What a Babylonian laundry list says about you

CNN

June 10th, 2011

02:11 PM ET

  

What Would Hammurabi & Nebuchadnezzar Say?: 21-Volume Ancient Assyrian ... 

Care2.com (blog) - Kristina Chew - ‎Jun 10, 2011

Dictionary of Akkadian Language Links Modern Civilization with Ancient Origins

VOA News

June 09, 2011

«Umu», cioè «giorno». In assiro-babilonese

L'Università di Chicago completa il dizionario dopo 90 anni di lavoro

Corriere della Sera 

June 8, 2011

After 90 Years, a Dictionary of an Ancient World

New York Times

By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD

Published: June 07, 2011

Mesopotamian dictionary completed after 90 years' work

The Guardian - ‎Jun 7, 2011‎

Huge Ancient Language Dictionary Finished After 90 Years

ScienceBlog.com (blog) - ‎Jun 6, 2011‎

  

After 90 Years, University of Chicago Scholars Finish Dictionary

Wall Street Journal (blog) - Christopher Shea - ‎Jun 6, 2011

University of Chicago institute completes dictionary of ancient language after  9 decades
21-volume sets will be sold to libraries for $1,400 each

By William Mullen, Tribune reporter:23 p.m. CDT

June 5, 2011

Scholars complete dictionary of lost language after 90 years

A dictionary of a long dead language has been completed after a team of scholars worked on it for 90 years.

By Nick Allen, Los Angeles

10:00AM BST 06 Jun 2011

Huge Ancient Language Dictionary Finished After 90 Years

Released: 6/5/2011 2:30 PM EDT

Source: University of Chicago

Ancient world dictionary finished – after 90 years

Huffington Post
SHARON COHEN | June 4, 2011 09:56 AM EST

After 90 years, U. of C. completes dictionary documenting humanity’s earliest days
BY KARA SPAK Staff Reporter/kspak@suntimes.com Jun 3, 2011 8:08PM

 

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