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    Paul-Émile Botta (6 December 1802 – 29 March 1870) was an Italian-born French scientist who served as Consul in Mosul (then in the Ottoman Empire, now...
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  • Argentine footballer; Paul-Émile Botta or Paolo Emiliano Botta (1802–1870), Italian-French archaeologist and naturalist; Renee Botta, Chair of the Department...
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    situation changed in April 1843, when the French Consul General at Mosul, Paul-Émile Botta, who had been excavating at Kuyunjik (the contemporary village atop...
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  • gallium, samarium and dysprosium Paul-Émile Borduas (1905–1960), Québec painter known for his abstract paintings Paul-Émile Botta (1802–1870), Italian-born French...
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    this species honor Paul-Émile Botta, a naturalist and archaeologist who collected mammals in California in 1827 and 1828. Botta's pocket gopher is a medium-sized...
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    to host the monumental Assyrian sculpture works brought to Paris by Paul-Émile Botta, in the ground-floor gallery north of the eastern entrance of the Cour...
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    excavated in 1844 by Paul-Émile Botta. Botta illustration 1849 Botta overview Botta illustration 1849 Botta illustration 1849 Botta illustration 1849 Monument...
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    archaeologists like Heinrich Schliemann, Jean-François Champollion, Paul-Émile Botta, and Howard Carter, among others. The book inspired the graphic artist...
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    brought back two small fragments. In 1842 the French consul in Mosul, Paul-Émile Botta, hired men to dig at Kuyunjik, the largest mound at Nineveh. Little...
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    Botta died at Paris on August 10, 1837, in comparative poverty, but in the enjoyment of an extensive and well-earned reputation. His son, Paul-Émile Botta...
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    a village Koindsjug." In 1842, the French Consul General at Mosul, Paul-Émile Botta, began to search the vast mounds that lay along the opposite bank of...
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    Peninsula. It is also known as Botta's wheatear or the red-breasted wheatear. The species is named after Paul-Émile Botta. Heuglin's wheatear (O. heuglini)...
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  • Claudius Rich Dur-Sharrukin (Knorsabad) - 1842 - Paul-Émile Botta Ninevah - 1843 - Paul-Émile Botta Ninevah - 1845 - Austen Henry Layard Dur-Sharrukin...
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    of Sargon's ancient capital city, Dur-Sharrukin, were discovered by Paul-Émile Botta in 1843. Before the cuneiform inscriptions were deciphered in 1847...
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    Meaning in Human Culture." 27 Apr. 1994, ProQuest 195357938 Murgatroyd, Paul. "5. Other Winged Monsters ." Mythical Monsters in Classical Literature,...
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    Darius the Great some two hundred years later. French archeologist Paul-Émile Botta published a scathing review of Traité des écritures cunéiformes in...
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  • Salt collected Ancient Egyptian artifacts for the British Museum, Paul Émile Botta excavated the palace of Assyrian ruler Sargon II, Austen Henry Layard...
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    They were greatly helped by the excavations of the French naturalist Paul Émile Botta and English traveler and diplomat Austen Henry Layard of the city of...
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    archaeologist Paul Émile Botta uncovered the remains of the ancient city of Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian Empire. Among the treasures unearthed by Botta and...
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    antiquities was begun in earnest in 1842, with Paul-Émile Botta, the French consul at Mosul. The excavations of P.E. Botta at Khorsabad and Austen H. Layard (from...
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    excavations at Nineveh. The first consul to be appointed was Paul-Émile Botta (1802–1870) in 1841. Botta conducted, using funds secured by Mohl, extensive excavations...
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  • archeologists Paul-Émile Botta and Eugène Flandin. Botta and Flandin published their findings in 1849, in a paper entitled Les Monuments de Ninive. Botta and Flandin...
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    was found by chance; Paul-Émile Botta was conducting excavations at Nineveh when he heard about it from locals in 1843. Under Botta and his assistant Victor...
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    Portrait of Juliette Drouet as a woman of Smyrna, 1827. Portrait of Paul-Émile Botta, orientalist, 1840, oil on canvas, now in the Louvre Portrait of Eugène...
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    the great mound of Kuyunjik, near Mosul, already partly excavated by Paul-Émile Botta. Layard remained in the neighbourhood of Mosul, carrying on excavations...
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  • bottae. The holotype was collected in southwestern Yemen.by Paul-Émile Botta in 1837. Botta is the eponym for the species name "bottae". In 1878, George...
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    and Babylon. He continued via Nineveh, to which the archaeologist Paul-Émile Botta was also travelling to begin his excavations. His Middle East journey...
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    site of Nineveh, Paul-Émile Botta (1802–70) discovered the Assyrian capital of Dur Sharrukin on the site of modern Khorsabad. Botta mistook the place...
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    Louvre, 5th century BC 1905 photographs A similar discovery was made by Paul-Émile Botta in the 1840s at Khorsabad. It is currently in the Louvre, under ID...
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    third "Illustration of Discoveries at Nineveh" (Longmans, 1859) by Paul-Émile Botta. Thomas was very involved in many aspects of the social and commercial...
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