Rassam, who assisted Austen Henry Layard in his discovery of Ashurbanipal's library and eventually became a great archaeologist in his own right, was born in Mosul to an old Chaldean Christian family.
You could see very clearly how the modest structure, put up in the days of the great archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans, was always too flimsy to be properly insulated, waterproofed and air-conditioned.
With his fellow lutemaker Michael Lowe – the instrument's other great archaeologist – and the violin maker David Munro, Stephen made playable an instrument originally produced in Augsburg, Germany, in 1590 by Sixtus Rauwolf.
He was now feted as one of the world's greatest archaeologists and would have been knighted, as were Keith and Smith Woodward, had he not died of septicaemia in 1916.
Certainly, he has adopted the buccaneering, scholarly pose of the great macho archaeologists of the 1920s and 1930s.
At the exhibition preview, Roger S. Bagnall, director of the institute, confessed that until now "a great many archaeologists had not heard of these Old Europe cultures".
The levels of pharmacopollutants in our environment are so great that archaeologists will one day examine sedimentary layers of pharmaceutical stone, banded chronologically with the epochs of medicinal chemistry.
I'll occasionally spend an hour or so there, feeling small and unimportant before the portraits of Kant and the great German archaeologist Johann Winckelmann.
Author Nancy Hatch Dupree, eightysomething, recently opened the Afghanistan Center at Kabul University to commemorate her great love, archaeologist Louis Dupree, and return something to the country that brought them together.
The technical and archaeometallurgical studies on Luristan bronzes have always been a great interest for archaeologists and scientists.
