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-====== What is Assyriology ======
-Unlike the cultures of ancient Rome, Greece, or Egypt, the ancient Near East has left few standing archaeological monuments that are capable of exciting the imagination of modern visitors. Apart from the remarkable reliefs from the Assyrian palaces, the majority of the artefacts from ancient Mesopotamia are modest in size and seemingly unimpressive. Inspired by the BBC's "A History of the World in 100 Objects" we list the one hundred most iconic inscribed objects from the Ancient Near East, objects that we think define the field.
-[[the_one_hundred_most_important_cuneiform_objects]]
-===== History of Assyriology =====
-As part of its bibliographical tools cdli:wiki maintains a list of [[who_s_who_in_cuneiform_studies]], with brief biographies of deceased Assyriologists.
-===== Links =====
-[[http://iaassyriology.org|The International Association for Assyriology]]
-[[http://cdli.ucla.edu/pubs/cdlj/2011/cdlj2011_001.html|article on the decipherment of cuneiform by K. Cathcart]]