Western Classical Studies is a discipline that studies the traditions and historical culture of Western classical civilization based on Greek and Latin literature. In recent years, the concept of classical studies has been more widely used, including both traditional Western classical studies and the study of other ancient civilizations. This article takes the ancient Western Asian civilization as an example to explore its inherent correlation with Western classical studies. The construction of Western classical studies and the study of ancient West Asian civilization. Ancient West Asian studies rely on excavated documents and archaeological materials discovered in the West Asian region, and carry out research in philology, philology, archaeology, history, and religion. In the contemporary disciplinary system, there are disciplines such as Assyrianism and Hittite studies. The establishment of Assyrian and Hittite studies originated from the exploration of the East by Westerners. West Asia, in the eyes of Westerners, is the distant East, but it is also the birthplace of Jesus Christ and the 'Promised Land'. In the second half of the 18th century, West Asia began to become a target of colonial expansion by countries such as Britain, France, and Germany, with the exploration and discovery of ancient civilizations becoming the main pretext. At the beginning of the 20th century, Sir Wallis Bach, an Englishman, pointed out sharply when commenting on the German archaeological work in West Asia: "As for the excavation in Assyria and Babylon, many astute observers pointed out that Germany only began to seriously excavate in these countries when it began to dream of establishing the German Oriental Empire, which was arrived by the Baghdad Railway." The Bible and the records of classical writers, which are widely known in the western world, became important reference guides. The Old Testament Bible, as well as descriptions of Babylonia and Assyria by classical writers such as Herodotus, Ctesias, and Bezos, are regarded as enduring documents for Assyrian studies. The recognition of representative cities such as Nineveh, Karhu, Babylon, and Uruk, which have played an important role in the history of world civilization, is attributed to this. With the successful decipherment of cuneiform script, Assyrianism was finally established. The disciplinary system of Assyrian studies was gradually constructed on the basis of modern Western classical studies. In the 14th and 15th centuries, the Western Renaissance movement was dominated by humanism, with the revival of ancient Greek and Roman culture as the main measure, and classical studies began to enter the school education system. After the two industrial revolutions, universities in countries such as England, France, and Germany began to establish majors in classical studies, teaching classical Greek and Latin, studying and interpreting the classic works of classical writers, and researching rhetoric, grammar, and so on. The disciplinary system of Assyrian studies follows the basic framework of classical studies, focusing on the study of ancient texts and annotations of ancient literature. The early founders of Assyrian studies mostly had a profound foundation in Western classical studies, such as Sir Ostan Layard, the excavation supervisor of Nineveh, and Henry Rawlinson, the decipherer of cuneiform script. The personnel involved in deciphering cuneiform script came from various Western European countries, including G. from Germany F. Grotfin, Ch Larsen from Norway, R. from Denmark C. Lesker, Edward Sinks from Ireland, and others. Differently, the vast majority of ancient West Asian literature is unearthed, making archaeology the most important part of the Assyrian and Hittite disciplinary systems from the very beginning. In the 1880s, the United States began to join the construction of the discipline system for studying ancient Western Asian civilizations and gradually became another research center, but the discipline system architecture did not undergo major adjustments. The characteristics of "Western learning" in the study of ancient Western Asian civilization. The research themes, methods, theoretical choices, and constructions of ancient Western Asian civilization mostly revolve around traditional topics in the Western academic community, especially focusing on the relationship between ancient Western Asian civilization and the tradition of the Old Testament Bible, as well as the origins of ancient Western civilization in the Western civilization tradition. The basic methods of biblical hermeneutics have been directly applied to the study of ancient Western Asian literature. After the mid-20th century, American Assyrian scholars James Pritchard and William Harrow successively presided over the publication of "Ancient Near Eastern Documents Related to the Old Testament Bible" and "Supplement to Scriptures - Classic Documents from the Biblical World", which included documents unearthed from Egypt, Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia, written in hieroglyphics, cuneiform, and Aramaic letters. The criteria for selecting literature are related to the text of the Bible, with each chapter labeled with its corresponding chapter. The structure, translated names, and word by sentence annotation of the literature all reflect the hermeneutic tradition of the Bible. The study of the heritage of ancient Western Asian civilizations has been a long-standing theme in Assyrian and Hittite studies, and the Western academic community generally focuses on studying their contributions to Western civilization. In December 1872, George Smith, a curator at the British Museum, announced that he had discovered the story of the Great Flood in cuneiform tablets. The story recorded the location of the legendary earliest human home, the Garden of Eden, and the cities that existed before the Great Flood. He pointed out that the art and science reflected in the story belong to the Greeks, and therefore to 'ourselves'. Taking this as a guide, the academic community has conducted in-depth research, and here are only three influential achievements: Samuel Kramer's "History Begins in Sumer: Thirty Nine Firsts in Human History" summarizes the relevant records in Sumerian literature, elaborating on the contributions of Sumerian civilization to world civilization from the perspectives of government and politics, education and literature, philosophy and morality, law and justice, agriculture and medical knowledge. Obviously, its theme selection focuses more on a Western perspective, and most of the references come from the Bible. William Harrow clearly stated at the beginning of his book "The Ancient Origins of Modern Western Institutions" that the goal of the book is to demonstrate how the inventions, creations, and ideas of ancient Near Easterners have survived to this day... to what extent the modern West still benefits from the ancient Near East. Stephanie Daly, a British academic fellow and Assyrian scholar, spends more than half of her book "The Heritage of Mesopotamia" exploring the connection between ancient Mesopotamian civilizations and Greek civilization. Based on this, ancient Western Asian civilization and classical civilization are closely linked together. The Mediterranean region, which is the core area of Western classical civilization, is the ancient civilization of West Asia in the Western classical tradition. The Eastern Mediterranean separates the three major civilizations of the region - ancient West Asia, Egypt, and Greek and Roman civilizations - from each other and connects them together. For a long time, the ancestors of the Eastern Mediterranean did not have significant differences in their cosmology, worldview and outlook on life, concepts of state and monarchy, social organization and management methods, cultural identity standards, production and lifestyle, customs, and other aspects. In other words, the Eastern Mediterranean region should be in a common survival circle, experiencing a common political and economic development trajectory, and exhibiting many similarities. American global history researcher Leffen Stavrianos once said, 'If all other geographical factors are equal, the key to human progress lies in the accessibility between different ethnic groups.'. After the Greco Persian War, the concept of opposition between Greeks and barbarians seemed to foreshadow the Mediterranean becoming a dividing line or boundary between Eastern and Western cultures. The orator Aeschylus from the 4th century BC said, "The hostility between Greece and Persia is so deeply rooted in our thinking that in the field of mythology, we are most fond of reading about the Trojan War and the Greco Persian War... It is the wars between us and the barbarians that gave birth to the poetic form of triumphal hymns. What Aeschylus did not realize was that the myths, epics, and hymns in this passage actually came from the cultural traditions of ancient West Asia. The understanding of the world, universe, and humanity by residents of ancient Western Asia, Egypt, and other Eastern Mediterranean regions was the source of knowledge for ancient Greek philosophers. In the works of classical writers such as Greek mythology, Hesiod's Theogony, Homer's Epics, and Herodotus' History, evidence of this is abundant. The nourishment of ancient Western Asian civilization to classical civilization is multifaceted. Alexander the Great and the emperors of the Roman Empire accepted the so-called "Eastern" monarchy and the tradition of legal codes. Writers and poets constantly cite mythological systems and literary themes from the 'East'. Scholars borrow omens and divination systems from the "East". The book "Philosophy Before Greece: The Pursuit of Truth in Ancient Babylon" by American Assyrian scholar Mark van der Milop studies the Babylonian traditions of creation epic, vocabulary, prophecy and divination, law, etc., and interprets the historical experience of the ancient Mesopotamian ancestors and the nourishment they gave to Greek philosophy from different perspectives such as historical philosophy and ideological concepts. Belgian historian Marcel de Tienne has a clear understanding of the positioning of Western classical civilization. He said that ancient Greece was a part of the human past and belonged to a whole group composed of various ancient societies such as the Mesopotamia, China, Egypt, and Vedic India. The accumulation of ancient Western Asian civilization experience has provided profound nourishment to Western classical civilization, laying a solid foundation for its leap forward. The scattered imprints of ancient West Asian civilization preserved in the Western classical tradition and the Bible tradition have become the knowledge foundation for the modern Western rediscovery and restoration of ancient West Asian civilization, creating Assyrian and Hittite studies with distinct "Western" characteristics under the Western scientific system. The intricate relationship between ancient West Asian civilization and Western classical tradition indicates that expanding the scope of classical studies and giving it greater space will become an important focus for strengthening the exchange and mutual learning of world civilizations. (New Society)