Hermann Hunger an Austrian Assyriologist, Professor of Assyriology at the University of Vienna, until his retirement (2007). An authority on Babylonian astronomy and celestial omens. Hunger translated a cuneiform tablet from the Babylonian astronomical diaries that describes the appearance of Halley's Comet in 163 BCE.Hermann Hunger an Austrian Assyriologist, Professor of Assyriology at the University of Vienna, until his retirement (2007). An authority on Babylonian astronomy and celestial omens. Hunger translated a cuneiform tablet from the Babylonian astronomical diaries that describes the appearance of Halley's Comet in 163 BCE....more