Hormuzd Rassam, explorer and archaeologist Robert Anderson 1st May 1952

1st May 1952

Ephesus was the capital of the province of Asia in Roman times

View with a carriage on the street outside

and JP Morgan

On 25 June 1807

Hormuzd Rassam, explorer and archaeologist Robert Anderson 1st May 1952Hormuzd Rassam, explorer and archaeologist, 1881. Rassam (1826 1910) was born in Mosul, in modern Iraq. In 1845 1847 he assisted the British archaeologist AH Layard in his first expedition to the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh. Rassam then studied at Oxford before being sent by the trustees of the British Museum to assist Layard on his second Assyrian expedition of 1849 1851. He subsequently continued work on various Assyrian sites, making numerous