Archibald Henry Sayce (1845-1933) became interested in Middle Eastern languages and scripts while still a teenager.
In the preface to this 1875 teaching grammar/reader, he notes that in just three years since the public.
Based at Oxford, the young philologist Sayce published several books on Assyrian in quick succession.
Old Persian and Akkadian Cuneiform had recently been deciphered, and in the early 1870s the translation of part of the epic tale of Gilgamesh attracted considerable publicity.
Archibald Henry Sayce (1845-1933) became interested in Middle Eastern languages and scripts while still a teenager