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Ancient Near East studies

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Ancient Near East studies (or ANE studies) is the field of academic study of the Ancient Near East (ANE). As such it is an umbrella term for Assyriology, in some cases extending to Egyptology.

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History of ANE studies

In Britain the first Assyriological appointments in the University of London date to 1904, when T. G. Pinches of the British Museum was appointed to a professorship.

Societies

  • American Oriental Society
  • ASOR - American Schools of Oriental Research, Boston
  • British Institute for the Study of Iraq
  • CEHAO - Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente, Argentina
  • Council for British Research in the Levant
  • Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft
  • The Melammu Project The Assyrian and Babylonian Intellectual Heritage Project, Helsinki.
  • Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
  • Société Asiatique, Paris

    • Universities with major ANE centres

  • Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina
  • University of Chicago Oriental Institute
  • Columbia University
  • New York University Institute for Study of the Ancient World

    • References

    Ancient Near East studies Wikipedia
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