Hormuzd Rassam (Arabic: هرمز رسام; Syriac: ܗܪܡܙܕ ܪܣܐܡ; 1826 – 16 September 1910) was an Assyriologist and author. He is known for making a number of important archaeological discoveries from 1877 to 1882, including 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.
HormuzdRassam (Arabic: هرمز رسام; Syriac: ܗܪܡܙܕ ܪܣܐܡ; 1826 – 16 September 1910) was an Assyriologist and author. He is known for making a number of important...
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century BCE cylinder was discovered in the North Palace of Nineveh by HormuzdRassam in 1854, hence its name. It is located in the British Museum. The cylinder...
anachronistic" and controversial. The Assyro-British archaeologist HormuzdRassam discovered the Cyrus Cylinder in March 1879 during a lengthy programme...
Royal Palace of king Sennacherib (705–681 BCE). Three years later, HormuzdRassam, Layard's assistant, discovered a similar library in the palace of King...
worked there briefly in 1854. The next excavation was conducted by HormuzdRassam on behalf of the British Museum. Work began in 1879, continuing until...
was from Gondar and belonged to a noble family. However, According to HormuzdRassam, she was originally from Amhara Sayint. Her mother, Woizero Tishal,...
Yohannan Hormizd (1760–1838), Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church HormuzdRassam (1826–1910), Assyrian assyriologist Hormazd Narielwalla (born 1979)...
victory banquets and scenes of tribute bearing. The Rassam Obelisk, named after its discoverer HormuzdRassam, was found on the citadel of Nimrud (ancient Kalhu)...
handed over to HormuzdRassam in 1853-54 and then William Loftus in 1854–55. After George Smith briefly worked the site in 1873 and Rassam returned there...
on the Nabu temple. Between 1879 and 1881 the site was excavated by HormuzdRassam for the British Museum. He concentrated primarily on E-zida, the temple...
settlement of Nineveh, northern Iraq. Excavated by the British archaeologist HormuzdRassam in 1853, it is one of only two intact obelisks to survive from the Assyrian...
reburied, or reached other countries. Layard had recruited the 20-year old HormuzdRassam in Mosul, where his brother was British Vice-consul, to handle the pay...
Library of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh by Austen Henry Layard, his assistant HormuzdRassam, and W. K. Loftus in the early 1850s. Late in the following decade,...
Smith in 1873 and by Edgar James Banks. Tell Ibrahim was excavated by HormuzdRassam in 1881, for four weeks. Little was discovered, mainly some Hebrew and...
Abu Habba, measuring over 1 square kilometer was first excavated by HormuzdRassam between 1880 and 1881 for the British Museum in a dig that lasted 18...
corresponding Sudanese village of Gallabat. According to the British diplomat HormuzdRassam, who travelled through Metemma in November 1865 on his diplomatic mission...
named Imgur-Enlil. The site was excavated in 1878 by archaeologist HormuzdRassam. The site was again excavated by Max Mallowan for the British School...
Babylonian copy excavated from the site of the ancient city of Sippar by HormuzdRassam in the 19th century. It chronicles the conflict of generations of the...
Aramaic, were called Chaldeans, as an ethnic, not a religious term. HormuzdRassam (1826–1910) still applied the term "Chaldeans" no less to those not...
the British Museum were discovered in 1878 by local archaeologist HormuzdRassam. Rassam was the first Assyrian archaeologist. By the time of their discovery...
Battle of Wayna Daga, near Dembiya woreda in Begemdir. According to HormuzdRassam, Tewodros II's mother, Atitegeb Wondbewossen, was a native of Amhara...
Europeans in the royal camp put into chains. The British government sent HormuzdRassam, an ethnic Assyrian Christian from Mesopotamia, to negotiate a solution...
Nestorians, or Nestorian Catholics.” In 1881, archeologist and author HormuzdRassam stated: “The inhabitants of Assyria consist now of mixed races, Arabs...
Nabu-apla-iddina ca. 888 – 855 BC. The tablet was discovered during excavations by HormuzdRassam between 1878 and 1883. The tablet was found complete but broken into...
the Ocean, perhaps imagined as mountains. The tablet was excavated by HormuzdRassam at Sippar, Baghdad vilayet, some 60 km north of Babylon on the east...
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