Area studies by ancient history

thumb|270x270px|The Mesopotamian god [[Ninurta with his thunderbolts pursues the divine monster Anzû stealing the Tablet of Destinies from Enlil's sanctuary, Austen Henry Layard Monuments of Nineveh, 2nd Series, 1853]] thumb|Reconstruction (architecture)|Reconstruction of the [[Babylonian Ishtar Gate in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin]] Assyriology (from Greek , Assyriā; and , -logia), also known as Cuneiform studies or Ancient Near East studies, is the archaeological, anthropological, historical, and linguistic study of the cultures that used cuneiform writing. The field covers Pre Dynastic Mes

thumb|170px|Kazimierz Michałowski, who coined the term Nubiology. Nubiology is the scientific study of ancient Nubia, which existed in parts of modern-day Egypt and Sudan, predominantly in the Middle Nile region from Aswan to Khartoum. The term was coined by archaeologist Kazimierz Michałowski.

Thracology (; ; ) is the scientific study of Ancient Thrace and Thracian antiquities and is a regional and thematic branch of the larger disciplines of ancient history and archaeology. A practitioner of the discipline is a Thracologist. Thracology investigates the range of ancient Thracian culture (language, literature, history, religion, art, economics and ethics) from 1000 BC up to the end of Roman rule in the 4th–7th centuries AD. It is believed 'modern' Thracology (as opposed to an 'antiquarian' interest in the land of Thrace) started with the work of Wilhelm Tomaschek in the late 19th cen