George Smith

male, deceased (1876)
George Smith (Chelsea, London March 26, 1840 - August 19, 1876), was a pioneering English Assyriologist who first discovered and translated the...
Simo Parpola

Simo Parpola

male
Simo Parpola is professor of Assyriology at the University of Helsinki located in Helsinki, Finland. He specialized in epigraphy of the Akkadian...
Hormuzd Rassam

Hormuzd Rassam

male, deceased (1910)
Hormuzd Rassam (1826 - 16 September, 1910) was an Assyrian Assyriologist and traveller who made a number of important discoveries, including the...
Samuel Noah Kramer

Samuel Noah Kramer

male, deceased (1990)
Samuel Noah Kramer was one of the world's leading Assyriologists and a world renowned expert in Sumerian history and Sumerian language.
Edward Hincks

Edward Hincks

male, deceased (1866)
The Reverend Edward Hincks (August 19, 1792 - December 3, 1866) was an Irish clergyman, best remembered as an Assyriologist and one of the...
Leonard Woolley

Leonard Woolley

male, deceased (1960)
Charles Leonard Woolley (17 April, 1880-20 February, 1960) was a British archaeologist best known for his excavations at Ur in Mesopotamia. He is...

Archibald Sayce

male, deceased (1933)
The Rev. Archibald Henry Sayce (25 September 1846 - 4 February 1933), was a pioneer Assyriologist and linguist, who held a chair as Professor of...
Julius Oppert

Julius Oppert

male, deceased (1905)
Julius Oppert (July 9, 1825 - August 21, 1905), French-German Assyriologist, was born at Hamburg, of Jewish parents. After studying at Heidelberg,...
Marc van de Mieroop

Marc van de Mieroop

male, 53 years old
Marc van de Mieroop (born Oct 22 1956) (PhD Yale 1983) is a professor (full professor 1996) of Ancient Near Eastern history at Columbia University....
William L. Moran

William L. Moran

male, deceased (2000)
William Lambert Moran (August 11 1921 - December 19, 2000), was an American Assyriologist, he was born in Chicago, USA. In 1939, Moran joined the...