Editing Archibald Sayce (section)

===Sumerian and Akkadian languages===
Sayce's early research examined [[Sumerian language|Sumerian]] and [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]] languages. His article ''An Accadian Seal'' (1870), includes the discovery of many of the linguistic  principles of Sumerian.<ref name="Langdon"/> Sayce's ''An Assyrian grammar for comparative purposes'' (1872), drew attention from established Assyriologists to the 'new' language.<ref name ="Budge">{{cite book
 | last1 = Budge
 | first1 = E A Wallis
 | title = Rise and Progress of Assyriology
 | date = 1925
 | location = London
 | url = https://archive.org/details/RiseAndProgressOfAssyriologyByEAWallisBudge/page/n1/mode/2up}}</ref> In 1874, Sayce published his paper, ''The Astronomy and Astrology of the Babylonians'', one of the first articles to translate [[Babylonian astronomy|astronomical cuneiform texts]].<ref>{{cite book
 | last1 = Baigent
 | first1 = Michael 
 | title = Astrology in Ancient Mesopotamia: The Science of Omens and the Knowledge of the Heavens
 | publisher = Simon and Schuster
 | isbn = 978-1591432227
 | date = 2015
 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=vFgoDwAAQBAJ&q=editions:ISBN1591432227}}</ref>