Layard's work was continued by his assistant, Hormuzd Rassam and in 1852 – 1854 he went on to discover the North Palace of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh with many magnificent reliefs, including the famous Royal Lion Hunt scenes.

The work of exploration was carried on by George Smith, Hormuzd Rassam, and others, and a vast treasury of specimens of Assyria was incrementally exhumed for European museums.

* September 17 – Hormuzd Rassam, Iraqi archaeologist ( b. 1826 )

The Epic of Gilgamesh was discovered by Hormuzd Rassam in 1853 and is now widely known.

was first excavated by Hormuzd Rassam between 1880 and 1881 for the British Museum in a dig that lasted 18 months.

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Hormuzd Rassam in Mosul ca.

* Hormuzd Rassam, Assyrian Archaeologist 1826-1910

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* Major excavation at Babylon, conducted by Hormuzd Rassam on behalf of the British Museum.

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Rawlinson personally uncovered the foundation prisms from Nebuchadnezzar IIs restoration on the Nabu temple. Between 1879 and 1881 the site was excavated by Hormuzd Rassam for the British Museum.

The British sent a mission under an Assyrian born British subject named Hormuzd Rassam, who bore a letter from the Queen-this letter was in response to a letter sent to the queen from Tewodros, but it was three years late, having been filed-but brought with him no skilled workers as Tewodros had requested.

He was still part of Tewodros ' court in April 1866, when Hormuzd Rassam mentions meeting " the puppet Emperor, Hatse Yuhannes, who was sick and could come to the assembly ".

Renouf gave excoriating evidence against Budge in court when the latter was found to have falsely accused Hormuzd Rassam of being corruptly involved in illicit trade of cuneiform tablets.

* Hormuzd Rassam ( 1826 – 1910 ) native Assyrian Assyriologist

According to the British diplomat Hormuzd Rassam, who travelled through Metemma in November 1865 on his diplomatic mission to Emperor Tewodros II, " Metemma " comes from the Arabic for " the place of cutting, or termination -- indicating the end of the Muslim provinces ", although at the time the settlement was better known as Suk ul-Gallabat (" The market of Gallabat ").

Tell Ibrahim was excavated by Hormuzd Rassam in 1881, for 4 weeks.

* Julian Reade, Hormuzd Rassam and His Discoveries, Iraq, vol.

Three years later, Hormuzd Rassam, Layard's assistant, discovered a similar " library " in the palace of King Ashurbanipal ( 668-627 BC ), on the opposite side of the mound.

The name " Bostanai " gave rise to the following legend: The last Persian king ( Hormuzd ), inimical to the Jews, decided to extinguish the royal house of David, no one being left of that house but a young woman whose husband had been killed shortly after his marriage, and who was about to give birth to a child.

Briefly, in February to April 1851, Loftus was released from the work of the Commission to excavate at Susa on behalf of the British Museum, but was in June replaced by Hormuzd Rassam, together with whom Loftus subsequently explored the sites and collaborated on a report on the work at Susa.

The Assyro-British archaeologist Hormuzd Rassam discovered the Cyrus Cylinder in March 1879 during a lengthy programme of excavations in Mesopotamia carried out for the British Museum.

The discovery of these tablets in the mid-nineteenth century by Hormuzd Raasam provided the modern world its first detailed glimpse of the languages and literature of ancient Mesopotamia.

Behzādān Pour Vandād Hormuzd ( Abu Moslem ) observed the revolt in Kufa in 736 tacitly.

Hormuzd Rassam in Mosul circa 1854.

Hormuzd Rassam's diggers found the Cyrus Cylinder in the mound of Tell Amran-ibn-Ali ( marked with an " E " at the centre of the map ) under which lay the ruined Esagila temple.

Layard, who was in Mosul on his first expedition ( 1845 – 1847 ), was impressed by the hard-working Rassam and took him under his wing ; they would remain friends for life.

Layard provided an opportunity for Rassam to travel to England and study at Oxford ( Magdalen College ), where he stayed for 18 months before accompanying Layard on his second expedition to Iraq ( 1849 – 1851 ).

Layard then began a political career, and Rassam continued field work ( 1852 – 1854 ) at Nimrud and Kuyunjik, where he made a number of important and independent discoveries, including clay tablets that would later be deciphered by George Smith as the Epic of Gilgamesh, the world's oldest-known example of written literature.

Rassam, an ethnic Assyrian, was born in Mosul, then part of the Ottoman Empire, ( now modern Iraq ) into a Chaldean Catholic and Assyrian Church of the East family.

His father Anton Rassam was from Mosul and was archdeacon in the Assyrian Church of the East ; his mother Theresa was daughter of Ishaak Halabee of Aleppo, Syria.

After being delayed for about a year in Massawa, Rassam at last received permission from the Emperor to enter his realm, but due to rebellions in Tigray was forced to follow a circuitous route taking him to Kassala, then to Metemma, along the western shore of Lake Tana to finally meet with Emperor Tewodros in northern Gojjam.

However, the monarch suddenly changed his attitude towards Rassam and he, too, was to become Tewodros ' prisoner and was held for two years until English and Indian troops under Robert Napier in the 1868 Expedition to Abyssinia resolved the standoff by defeating the warlord and his army.

His eldest daughter, Theresa Rassam, born in 1871, was a professional singer who sang with the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company.

He was married to the late Anne-Marie Rassam, with whom he had two children: the late actor Julien Rassam and actor and film producer Thomas Langmann.

Rassam then returned to England and, with the help of his friend Layard, started a new career in government with a posting to the British Consulate in Aden.

* Rassam, Narrative of the British Mission to Theodore, King of Abyssinia ( 1869 ) at Google Books.

Deeply insulted by the British failure to do exactly as they were told, Tewodros imprisoned the members of the Rassam mission as well.

With permission secured, Rassam initiated a large-scale excavation at Babylon and other sites on behalf of the Trustees of the British Museum.