Martin John Vittorio Worthington is Professore Ordinario of Assyriology in the Dipartimento di Civiltá e Forme del Sapere of the University of Pisa. He was formerly 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, 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. 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, and in 2025 the Gold Medal of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. 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.
Worthington worked with Marvel for the movie The Eternals, by providing them translations and recordings for part of the script in Babylonian.
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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. BBC Radio 4 In Our Time, “The Code of Hammurabi.” .