Chicago Assyrian Dictionary Completed

[Guest]

It took 90 years:

http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2011/06/06/huge-dictionary-project-university-chicago-completed-after-90-years

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-13715296

You can download the 21 volumes for free for personal use.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Yes, but have the Chicago academics changed all the Assyrian spellings, like they did with our language?

[DracoM]

Fascinating Chicago Univ website on this. Having recently returned from Egypt, this struck a whole series of chords. The Abu Simbel pre-Aswan high Dam pix particularly interesting.

[Forget It (U2079353)]

This is an amazing resource!