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About Hormuzd Rassam
Hormuzd Rassam was an Assyriologist and author. He is known for making a number of important archaeological discoveries from 1877 to 1882, including the Cyrus Cylinder and the clay tablets that contained the Epic of Gilgamesh, the world's oldest notable literature. He is widely believed to be the first-known Middle Eastern and Assyrian archaeologist from the Ottoman Empire. He emigrated to the United Kingdom, where he was naturalized as a British citizen, settling in Brighton. He represented the government as a diplomat, helping to free British diplomats from captivity in Ethiopia.
Everything about Hormuzd Rassam →- Occupation
- anthropologist, archaeologist, assyriologist, ancient Near Eastern scholar
- Citizenship
- Ottoman Empire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- 1826
- Died
- September 16, 1910, September 15, 1910