Ernest de Sarzec
Date of Birth  :
1832
Place of Birth  :
france
Country  :
France
Field of Expertise  :
Assyriology
Educational background  :
Ph.D
Acheivements / Contributions  :

French archaeologist whose excavation of the mound of Tello (ancient Girsu, Arabic Tall Lūḥ), in present-day southern Iraq, uncovered the Sumerian capital of Lagash and revealed much of what is known about the art, language, and history of the most ancient of Mesopotamian civilizations During the 1880s he succeeded in finding evidence of the reign of Gudea. He continued to work on the site until 1901.

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