Rassam, Hormuzd, 1826-1910

1845-1852 assistant to Henry Layard; 1852-1854 archaeologist at Nimrud and Kuyunjik; 1854-1860 interpreter, second then first assistant political agent at Aden; 1860-1861 negotiator in Muscat; 1864-1866 mission to Ethiopia; 1866-1868 prisoner of Emperor Theodore; 1868 fellow of the Royal Geographical Society; 1877 investigator into condition of Christian minorities in Asiatic Turkey; 1878-1882 archaeologist for the British Museum in Babylonia, Assyria, Van and Khabur.

Epithet: assyriologist, archaeologist and diplomat

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