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Leonard William King
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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"LEONARD WILLIAM KING (1869-1919), English archaeologist, was born in London Dec. 8 1869. Educated at Rugby and King's College, Cambridge, he obtained an appointment in the Egyptian and Assyrian department of the British Museum and conducted the Museum's excavations on the site of Nineveh. He also travelled widely in the Near East and collected rock inscriptions in Assyria, Persia and Kurdistan. He was for some years professor of Assyrian and Babylonian archaeology at King's College, London, and published a large number of works on these subjects, including Babylonian Magic and Sorcery (1896); Cuneiform Texts in the British Museum (1896-1909); Babylonian Religion and Mythology (1899) and many others. He died in London Aug. 20 1919.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Leonard William King'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/l/leonard-william-king.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Leonard William King'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/l/leonard-william-king.html. 1910.
