Hormuzd Rassam, explorer and archaeologist Robert Anderson Watercolour with pen and ink

Watercolour with pen and ink details on paper

1st May 1952

Ephesus was the capital of the province of Asia in Roman times

View with a carriage on the street outside

The launching of the buoy marking the spot where the cable had been grappled

Hormuzd Rassam, explorer and archaeologist Robert Anderson Watercolour with pen and inkHormuzd Rassam, explorer and archaeologist, 1881. Rassam (1826 1910) was born in Mosul, in modern Iraq. In 1845 1847 he assisted the British archaeologist AH Layard in his first expedition to the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh. Rassam then studied at Oxford before being sent by the trustees of the British Museum to assist Layard on his second Assyrian expedition of 1849 1851. He subsequently continued work on various Assyrian sites, making numerous