# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hormuzd-rassam
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:29:32.080Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hormuzd-rassam"
name: "Hormuzd Rassam"
slug: "hormuzd-rassam"
description: "Hormuzd Rassam was an Assyriologist and author. He is known for making a number of important archaeological discoveries from 1877 to 1882, including the clay tablets that contained the Epic of Gilgamesh, the world's oldest notable literature. He is widely believed to be the first-known Middle Eastern and Assyrian archaeologist from the Ottoman Empire. He emigrated to the United Kingdom, where he was naturalized as a British citizen, settling in Brighton. He represented the government as a diplomat, helping to free British diplomats from captivity in Ethiopia."
tagline: "Iraqi archaeologist (1826–1910)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hormuzd.Rassam.reclined.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1826"
deathDate: "1910-09-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.87
  momentum:             1.399363925488414
  historical:           16.42110133333333
  currentAttention:     1.792114695340502
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Ормуз Рассам"
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    title: "Hormuzd Rassam"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormuzd_Rassam"
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    title: "Hormuzd Rassam"
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    title: "Hormuzd Rassam"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormuzd_Rassam"
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    title: "Рассам, Ормуз"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump