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'''Hormuzd Rassam''' (1826{{spaced ndash}}16 September 1910) ({{lang-syr|ܗܪܡܙܕ ܪܣܐܡ}}), was a native [[Chaldean people|Chaldean]] and Christian [[Assyriology|Assyriologist]] who made a number of important discoveries from 1877 to 1882, including the [[clay tablet]]s that contained the ''[[Epic of Gilgamesh]]'', the world's oldest literature. He is accepted as the first-known [[Assyrian Chaldean people|AssyrianChaldean]], [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] and [[Middle Eastern]] [[archaeologist]]. Later in life, he became a [[United Kingdom|British]] citizen, settling in [[Brighton]], and represented its government as a [[diplomat]].

Rassam, an ethnic [[Chaldean people|Chaldean]], was born in [[Mosul]], (now modern [[Iraq]]), then part of the [[Ottoman Empire]], into a [[Christian]] family that were members of the [[Assyrian Chaldean Church of the East]] and [[Chaldean Catholic Church]].<ref name=reade>[http://www.jstor.org/stable/4200366 Julian Reade, "Hormuzd Rassam and His Discoveries"], ''Iraq,'' Vol. 55, (1993), pp. 39-62, Published by: British Institute for the Study of Iraq</ref> His father [[Anton Rassam]] was from Mosul and was archdeacon in the Chaldean Church of the East; his mother Theresa was a daughter of [[Ishaak Halabee]] of [[Aleppo, Syria]], also then within the Ottoman Empire.<ref name="rassam">[http://www.edessa.com/profiles/rasam.htm "Hormuzd Rassam Assyrian Archaeologist 1826-1910"], Edessa</ref>

[[Category:British people of Assyrian Chaldean descent]]

[[Category:Iraqi Assyrian Chaldean people]]