Paul-Émile Botta

French archaeologist (1802-1870) · France · On the map · Academics · Died at 67

Paul-Émile Botta was an Italian-born French archeologist who served as Consul in Mosul from 1842, and who discovered the ruins of the ancient Assyrian capital of Dur-Sharrukin.

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Father Carlo Giuseppe Guglielmo Botta

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Lamassu. Bas-relief from the m wall, k door, of king Sargon II's palace at Dur-Sharrukin in Assyria (now Khorsabad in Iraq), c. 713-716 BC. (From Botta's excavations in 1843-1844).

Awards

Commander of the Legion of Honour1868

Knight of the Legion of Honour

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Academics from France 6

Jean Peyrelevade48.7 of 100

François Blanc48.6 of 100

Jean Borella48.7 of 100

Alfred Jules Émile Fouillée48.6 of 100

Azouz Begag48.8 of 100

Alphonse Pénaud48.6 of 100