If you come across a word or phrase in another language, a printed or online dictionary is usually a good place to look for help. If you're faced with a language that's long been dead, however, then ...

Good evening. Your Grace; Mr.Dekaelaita; Mr. Mando, President of the ANCI; Mr. Ashurian; Mr. Youmaran; Dr. Yalda; my dear friend Dr. Solkah; Friends of the Assyrian community of Chicago. I've been ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... CHICAGO — It was a monumental project with modest beginnings: a small group of scholars and some index cards. The plan was to explore a long-dead language ...

The University’s recently completed reference work to a dead Mesopotamian language has a lively following. The response has pleased Martha T. Roth, editor-in-charge of the Assyrian Dictionary. A ...

Some might wonder if it is a bit late in the game, but scholars at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute have finally completed the Assyrian Dictionary, listing 28,000 words of a language ...

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 ...

The online dictionaries hosted at assyrianlanguages.org are among the most enduring community projects dedicated to the preservation of Assyrian heritage. Conceived in France by the Association ...

Erica Reiner, 81, an authority on one of the world’s oldest written languages, died of lung cancer Dec. 31 at her home in Chicago. For more than two decades, Reiner was the main editor of the Chicago ...

Erica Reiner used her passion for ancient written languages to help produce the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, a multi-volume compilation of Mesopotamian civilization. “She was amazing,” said Martha ...

CHICAGO | It was a monumental project with modest beginnings: a small group of scholars and some index cards. The plan was to explore a long-dead language that would reveal an ancient world of ...

It was a monumental project with modest beginnings: a small group of scholars and some index cards. The plan was to explore a long-dead language that would reveal an ancient world of chariots and ...