List of Assyriologists

This is a partial list of Assyriologists.

An Assyriologist is a person who specializes in the archaeological, historical, cultural and linguistic study of Assyria and the rest of ancient Mesopotamia (Iraq).

Taha Baqir translated the Epic of Gilgamesh from Akkadian into Arabic

Irving Finkel curates some ~130,000 cuneiform clay tablets housed in the British Museum

Edward Hincks , one of the decipherers of the cuneiform writing system

Thomas Hyde , who attempted to correct from Oriental sources the errors of the Greek and Roman historians

Austen Henry Layard , who uncovered the Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh in 1851

William Loftus , who discovered the Sumerian city of Uruk in 1849

Julius Oppert wrote an Assyrian grammar in 1868

Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet , called the "Father of Assyriology"

George Smith , the man who transliterated and read the "Babylonian Flood Story" of Tablet XI

Henry Fox Talbot , a polymath, had a 20-year involvement in the field of Assyriology, and helped decipher the cuneiform inscriptions of Nineveh