Behnam Nasser Nuaman Abu Alsoof (Arabic: بهنام ناصر نعمان أبو الصوف Behnam Abu alsouf) (born 1931 in Mosul, Iraq, died September 19, 2012)[1] was an Iraqi Assyriologist, anthropologist, historian and writer.
He completed graduate studies at the University of Cambridge, England[2] and received his doctorate degree in Archaeology and the nucleus of civilization and anthropology in the autumn of 1966.
He revealed several archaeological sites in Iraq, including Tell es-Sawwan in Samarra in Saladin Governorate, which was from the Stone Age.
[3] He also led his work at the site of Qainj Agha near Erbil Castle to detect a wide range of archaeological evidence from the Uruk period.
He died on September 19, 2012, in Amman, Jordan at the age of eighty due to a heart attack.