En quête de Ninive, des savants français à la découverte de la Mésopotamie (1842-1975). Chypre Une position critique qui lui

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not without apprehension

Jakob: Portis 349-356 Baillet

A clear-sighted and subtle synthesis

En quête de Ninive, des savants français à la découverte de la Mésopotamie (1842-1975). Chypre Une position critique qui luiIn 1842, French archaeologists began excavations near Mosul to discover Nineveh, the famous biblical city. The undertaking was crowned with success: they unearthed ancient palaces and numerous inscriptions in cuneiform writing. It took years of research and the genius of scholars like Jules Oppert (1825 1905) to decipher these inscriptions and understand the Semitic language in which they were written: Assyrian. These discoveries make the headlines in