Word: akkadian
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...attention to the lower areas of the palace grounds, hoping to find the statue's missing head, which may have rolled down the hill after some ancient accident. They will be spurred on by the inscriptions in the three official languages of the empire-Old Persian, Elamite and Akkadian-as well as in Egyptian hieroglyphics. In fact, the hieroglyphics say the statue is a "portrait." If that is indeed true, finding the missing head will enable modern man to gaze for the first time upon the full visage of Darius, the King of Kings...
...Babylonian Literature for three decades. One of his biggest contributions to the understanding of the ancients started by chance in 1948: he stumbled across some neglected tablets in the Iraq Museum. Eventually he identified them as one of the world's oldest known body of laws-the Akkadian Code of Eshnunna. Goetze translated the code, which predates the 3,700-year-old Code of Hammurabi by more than 150 years. It showed that price controls were used in the ancient Babylonian kingdom and that criminal penalties were carefully spelled out: "If a man bites the nose of another...
...Akkadian department has its own special library, and Celtic fans have a room where they can look over all the classics of Celtic literature. In the mammoth Widener library, there are special departments on the Crusades and on Dante, as well as a Theodore Roosevelt collection that is as big as many municipal libraries in small cities...
...last days of reading period are lays of quiet desperation, during which we occupy ourselves with an increased number of trivial activities. To accommodate anyone who wants to think about something other than Akkadian 132hf, we present the following rock and roll quiz. The first person to bring all the answers to the CRIMSON before Friday with a warped copy of the answer to question number...
Portuguese is, after all, the language of nearly half of South America. But if it is objected that France, because of its long standing importance in American universities, deserves forty times as much attention as Brazil, there are better examples. Eight courses are listed under Akkadian in the catalogue. There are eight courses for undergraduates alone in Arabic. Three courses are taught in Armenian, four in Persian, four in Turkish and so forth...