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ON August 21 died Prof. Jules Oppert, the last of the band of great scholars who were the pioneers of cuneiform decipherment. His name will go down to posterity with those of Rawlinson, Hincks, de Saulcy, and Fox Talbot, with whom he helped to lay the foundations of the flourishing science of Assyriology. Like them, too, he has now laid down the pen for ever.
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Prof. Jules Oppert . Nature 72, 432–433 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/072432a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/072432a0