Martin Worthington (academic)

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Martin Worthington is Associate Professor in Middle Eastern Studies at the Al Maktoum Centre for Middle Eastern Studies in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College, Dublin. ^[1] He was formerly senior lecturer in Assyriology at the University of Cambridge, and British Academy Research Fellow in the Dept of Near and Middle East at SOAS, University of London, with his research focused on Babylonian poems from the first millennium BC. ^[2] From 2006 to 2010 Worthington was a junior research fellow in Assyriology at St John's College, Cambridge. In 2011 Worthington was awarded the Sir George Staunton Prize from the Royal Asiatic Society. ^[2] In 2018 he directed the world’s first Babylonian-language film, The Poor Man of Nippur, which was shortlisted by the Arts and Humanities Research Council for the 2019 ‘Research in Film’ award. ^[3]

Worthington worked with Marvel for the movie The Eternals, by providing them translations and recordings for part of the script in Babylonian. ^{[4] [5]}

Selected publications

• Worthington, Martin (2010), Teach yourself complete Babylonian, London Teach Yourself Books, ISBN   978-0340983881
• Worthington, Martin (2011), "On Names and Artistic Unity in the Standard Version of the Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic", Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 21 (4), Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, v21 n04: 403–420, doi:10.1017/S1356186311000423, ISSN   1356-1863, S2CID   162366795
• Worthington, Martin (2012), Principles of Akkadian textual criticism, Studies in ancient Near Eastern records, v. 1., De Gruyter, ISBN   9781283629256
• Worthington, Martin (2019), Ea's Duplicity in the Gilgamesh Flood Story, Routledge, ISBN   9781138388925

References

1. "News and Events - Near and Middle Eastern Studies - Trinity College Dublin".
2. "Dr Martin Worthington | Academic | SOAS". www.soas.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 21 May 2011.
3. "Pattern Spotting, Quantification and Magic in the languages of Ancient Iraq". Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. 4 September 2020.
4. Trinity College Dublin News and Events (9 November 2021). "Trinity academic provides Babylonian translations for Marvel Studios' 'Eternals'". Archived from the original on 9 November 2021. Retrieved 6 October 2025.
5. Worthington, Martin (25 November 2021). "The Eternals – Marvel consulted me to help superheroes chit chat in Babylonian". The Conversation. Retrieved 6 October 2025.

External links

• "Official page at Trinity College, Dublin". Archived from the original on 30 December 2020. Retrieved 6 October 2025.
• Lecture "Translations and Literature in Ancient Mesopotamia".
• BBC Radio 4 In Our Time , "The Epic of Gilgamesh". Martin Worthington on the panel with Andrew R. George and Frances Reynolds.
• Martin Worthington at IMDb.