Martin Worthington is Associate Professor in Middle Eastern Studies at th
Al Maktoum Centre for Middle Eastern Studies
in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies,

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. He was formerly senior lecturer in

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at the

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, and

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Research Fellow in the Dept of Near and Middle East at

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, with his research focused on Babylonian poems from the first millennium BC. From 2006 to 2010 Worthington was a junior research fellow in Assyriology at

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. In 2011 Worthington was awarded the Sir George Staunton Prize from the

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. In 2018 he directed the world’s first Babylonian-language film,
The Poor Man of Nippur
'' which was shortlisted by the

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for the 2019 ‘Research in Film’ award. Worthington worked with Marvel for the movie

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, by providing them translations and recordings for part of the script in babylonian.

Selected publications

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References

External links

Official page
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. * Lecture on "Translations and Literature in Ancient Mesopotamia"
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'', "The Epic of Gilgamesh". Martin Worthington on the panel with

Andrew R. George Andrew R. George (born 1955) is a British Assyriologist and academic best known for his edition and translation of the ''Epic of Gilgamesh''. Andrew George is Professor of Babylonian language, Babylonian, Department of the Languages and Cultures ...

and

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