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WITH the passing of Archibald Henry Sayce on February 4, Oxford loses one of the last, if not the last, of the old life-fellows, and the world a link with the scholars, of whom Sayce was by no means the least, who first deciphered the languages of the inscriptions of the old tongues of Mesopotamia and the surrounding regions, and so put on a firm basis the study of the ancient history of the Nearer East.
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D. B., L. Prof. A. H. Sayce. Nature 131, 296–297 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131296b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/131296b0