Assyriological
Assyriological is a term referring to the academic field of Assyriology. Assyriology is the scholarly study of the ancient Near East, particularly the civilizations of Mesopotamia, as well as Syria and Anatolia. It encompasses the study of the languages, history, archaeology, literature, religion, and art of these ancient cultures. The primary focus of Assyriology is on civilizations that developed writing, with a particular emphasis on cuneiform scripts used in Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian languages.
The discipline emerged in the 19th century with the decipherment of cuneiform and the excavation of major