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Hormuzd Rassam
Hormuzd Rassam was an Assyriologist and diplomat, born in Mosul to an Assyrian Christian family, who worked as Austen Henry Layard's assistant and later excavated for the British Museum. In 1853 he found the North Palace of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh with much of its library and the lion hunt reliefs, and in 1879 he discovered the Cyrus Cylinder at Babylon.
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