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Henry Rawlinson does not deserve to be called the father of Assyriology.

Drawn from what Irving Finkel said

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  1. Irving Finkel

    Assyriologist at the British Museum

    He’s called the Father of Assyriology, but I think he’s the Stepfather of Assyriology because when he first got these inscriptions, he wrote a long book about it, which was almost entirely wrong.

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