Rassam, Hormuzd

Rassam, Hormuzd
(1826-1910)
   A noted Iraqi-born archaeologist and As-syriologist who made significant discoveries in many parts of Mesopotamia in the nineteenth century. Rassam began as an assistant to the British scholar and pioneering Assyriologist Austen Henry Layard from 1845 to 1847. At Layard's urgings, he then went to England and studied at Oxford's Magdalen College. After completing his education, Rassam went back to Iraq under the auspices of the British Museum and excavated at several ancient Assyrian sites, including Nimrud. In a later expedition (1876-1882), Rassam explored the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon and discovered the site of the Babylonian city of Sippara. Among his other important finds were tablets containing the stories of the creation and great flood, the lion-hunt reliefs of Assyria's King Ashurbanipal, and the bronze gates of another Assyrian monarch, Shalmaneser II.

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