The manual includes educational and methodological materials on academic disciplines, which together constitute the necessary volume of special training for students studying in the profiles of “Assyriology” and “Egyptology” at the Department of Ancient East of the Faculty of Oriental Studies of St. Petersburg State University.

Main goal of this publication is to create a universal manual, accessible to both students and teachers, to which they could refer while studying/teaching the subject, as well as in preparing for tests and exams. Also, the most important task of the publication is to present the educational and methodological base of professional Assyriological and Egyptological training that developed at Leningrad State University-St. Petersburg State University in the 20th and early 20th century. XXI century.