Paul Émile Botta

Paul Émile Botta (1802-1870), born Paolo Emiliano Botta, was a French scientist and Assyriologist, born at Turin in Italy. He was son of the Italian historian Carlo Giuseppe Guglielmo Botta (1766–1837). When consul at Mosul, in 1843, he discovered the ruins of Nineveh. He made further explorations, published in the "Memoire de l'Ecriture Cunéiform Assyrienne" and "Monuments de Ninive".

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