Bahija Khalil (1934 – January 13, 2019) was an Iraqi Assyriologist and director of the Iraq Museum from 1983 to 1989.

She obtained her first degree in archaeology at the University of Baghdad.

She became the first Iraqi archaeologist reading the scripts in Iraq and the first Iraqi student to obtain a doctorate in Archaeology from Germany.

She carried out post-doctoral research at the University of Baghdad.

[3] She published Eine zweisprachige Hymne aus dem Haus des Beschwörungspriesters in 1998 in German.