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| Title | The Sound of Akkadian - Listen to Ancient Babylonian Online |
| Body | From http://tinyurl.com/39oy9q9 Almost 2,000 years after its last native speakers disappeared, the sound of Ancient Babylonian makes a comeback in an online audio archive. The recordings include excerpts from some of the earliest known works of world literature, dating back to the first years of the second millennium BC. Prompted by the enquiries of curious colleagues and friends, Dr. Martin Worthington, an expert in Babylonian and Assyrian grammar from the University of Cambridge, has begun to record readings of Babylonian poems, myths and other texts in the original tongue. In an effort to present users with a variety of voices, the readings – available online for free at http://www.speechisfire.com – are given by Dr. Worthington's fellow Assyriologists. Read the full article at http://tinyurl.com/39oy9q9 |
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