Julius Oppert
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Julius (Jules) Oppert was a French-German Assyriologist, born in Hamburg of Jewish parents.
Julius Oppert
Fulgence Fresnel
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Fulgence Fresnel ( FRAYN-, FREN-el, -əl or fray-NEL; French: [fylʒɑ̃s fʁɛnɛl]; was a French Orientalist. He was brother to the noted physicist Augustin Fresnel. Fresnel was an Orientalist scholar who led one of the first archaeological teams to excavate in Mesopotamia.
Rafts carrying the mission's excavations down the River Tigris (Victor Place 1867)