Egyptology and Assyriology

2026–2027

52 courses

ASYR 0300Babylon: Myth and Reality
ASYR 0310Thunder-gods and Dragon-slayers: Mythology + Cultural Contact - Ancient Mediterranean and Near East
ASYR 0320The Origin(s) of Science
ASYR 0350Haunted Universe: Monsters and Demons at the Dawn of Civilization
ASYR 0400Intimate Stories: Narrative in Ancient Visual Culture
ASYR 0500Mathematics in the Ancient World
ASYR 0510The Zodiac: A 3000 Year History of Horoscopes, Astronomy, and Imagination
ASYR 0800The Cradle of Civilization? An Introduction to the Ancient Near East
ASYR 0900Longing and Lament: Exploring Love and Death in Ancient Near Eastern Literature
ASYR 0998Wrong For Good Reasons: An Introduction to the History of Science
ASYR 1000Introduction to Akkadian
ASYR 1010Intermediate Akkadian
ASYR 1020Alien Writing: Invented Scripts from Demons to Dune
ASYR 1100Imagining the Gods: Myths and Myth-making in Ancient Mesopotamia
ASYR 1110Literature of Ancient Iraq
ASYR 1120Libraries in the Ancient World: From Assurbanipal to Alexandria
ASYR 1150The Art of Civilization: Artist, Image, and Aesthetic in the First Cities
ASYR 1160Color and Culture in the Ancient Near East
ASYR 1200Sacred Spaces and Sacred Times: Religious Travels and Pilgrimages in the Ancient Near East
ASYR 1300The Age of Empires: The Ancient Near East in the First Millennium BC
ASYR 1400Introduction to Sumerian
ASYR 1420Monarchs, Gods and Demons: The Art of the Ancient Near East (HIAA 1420)
ASYR 1500Ancient Babylonian Magic and Medicine
ASYR 1600Astronomy Before the Telescope
ASYR 1650Time in the Ancient World
ASYR 1700Astronomy, Divination and Politics in the Ancient World
ASYR 1725Scientific Thought in Ancient Iraq
ASYR 1750Divination in Ancient Mesopotamia
ASYR 1800Scribes and Scholarship in the Ancient Near East
ASYR 1900Introduction to Hittite Language and Literature
ASYR 1990Individual Study Project
ASYR 2120Historiography of Exact Sciences
ASYR 2130Historiography of Exact Sciences
ASYR 2310AAncient Scientific Texts: Akkadian
ASYR 2310BAssyriology I
ASYR 2310CAssyriology II
ASYR 2310DAncient Scientific Texts: Cuneiform Literature
ASYR 2400Akkadian Literary and Religious Texts
ASYR 2420Akkadian Divinatory Texts
ASYR 2430Akkadian Historical Texts
ASYR 2500Readings in Sumerian
ASYR 2600Topics in Cuneiform Studies
ASYR 2700Special Topics in Ancient Sciences
ASYR 2710Babylonian Astronomy
ASYR 2720Greek Astronomy
ASYR 2750Art and Visual Culture in the Ancient Near East
ASYR 2800Archaeologies of Text
ASYR 2950Scribal and Scholarly Practices in Babylonia and Assyria
ASYR 2970Preliminary Examination Preparation
ASYR 2980Reading and Research
ASYR 2990Thesis Preparation
ASYR XLISTCourses of Interest to Concentrators in Egyptology and Assyriology