Word: assyriologists
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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Last week the University of Pennsylvania announced that after many years of effort, one of its scholars had succeeded in translating part of the oldest-known pharmacopoeia, dating from about 2100 B.C. The university's Assyriologist Samuel Noah Kramer needed the help of Pennsylvania State College's Dr. Martin Levey, a specialist in the history of science, to figure out the materia medica which the ancient physician was prescribing. Most were dissolved in wine or beer, e.g.: "Grind to a powder pear-tree wood and the moon plant, then pour kushumma wine over it and let [plain...
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