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Paul-Émile Botta

French archaeologist

Died when: 67 years 113 days (807 months)
Star Sign: Sagittarius

 

Paul-Émile Botta

Paul-Émile Botta (6 December 1802 – 29 March 1870) was an Italian-born French scientist who served as Consul in Mosul (then in the Ottoman Empire, now in Iraq) from 1842, and who discovered the ruins of the ancient Assyrian capital of Dur-Sharrukin.


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