Paul-Émile Botta
French archaeologist
Died when: 67 years 113 days (807 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
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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