Hormuzd Rassam: Quick Facts


Facts

Born 1826 • Mosul • Iraq
Died 1910 (aged 84)
Subjects Of Study Babylon • Mesopotamia • Assyrian • civilization

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E. G. Squier
American archaeologist
Layard, drawing by G.F. Watts; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Austen Henry Layard
British archaeologist
Leonard Woolley
Sir Leonard Woolley
British archaeologist
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John Garstang
British archaeologist
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Paul-Émile Botta
French archaeologist
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Sir Max Mallowan
British archaeologist
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Paolo Orsi
Italian archaeologist
Schliemann, Heinrich
Heinrich Schliemann
German archaeologist
Sir Flinders Petrie, detail of an oil painting by George Frederic Watts, 1900; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Sir Flinders Petrie
British archaeologist
Richard Leakey
Richard Leakey
Kenyan anthropologist, government official, and paleontologist
Louis S.B. Leakey
Louis Leakey
Kenyan archaeologist and anthropologist
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Sir Mortimer Wheeler
British archaeologist
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John Lloyd Stephens
American archaeologist
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Carl Blegen
American archaeologist
Mariette
Auguste Mariette
French archaeologist
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Li Chi
Chinese archaeologist
Mary Leakey stands beside a large fiberglass cast of ancient hominid footprints, holding the edge and looking toward the camera.
Mary Douglas Leakey
Kenyan archaeologist
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Ferdinand Keller
Swiss archaeologist and prehistorian
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Dame Kathleen Kenyon
British archaeologist
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Sir Alexander Cunningham
British army officer and archaeologist