The Importance of Translation in the Middle East

EA Spizer won a Guggenheim Fellowship to study the remains of the ancient Mittani and Hurins in Mesopotamia. Leonard William King was doing this back in the 1800s as well. Irving Finkel is another expert in cuneiform and Babylonian who teaches how to actually write on stone tablets. So when I tell you that they've been translated for a very long time, we've been known what they are.