Thureau-Dangin (other)
Thureau-Dangin is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: * François Thureau-Dangin (1872 – 1944) was a French archaeologist, assyriologist, and epigrapher who played a major role in the deciphering of Sumerian and Akkadian languages * Paul Thureau-Dangin (1837–1913), French historian of the reign of Louis-Philippe and the revival of Catholic thought in 19th century Britain See also

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François Thureau-Dangin
François Thureau-Dangin (3 January 1872 in Paris – 24 January 1944 in Paris) was a French archaeologist, assyriologist and epigrapher. He played a major role in deciphering of the Sumerian and Akkadian languages. He studied under Julius Oppert in Paris, and from 1895, was associated with duties performed at the Louvre, where in 1908, he was appointed assistant curator of the Oriental Antiquities department, in french thdépartement des Antiquités orientaleswhere he spent most of his career and whom he led from 1925 to 1928. On behalf of the Louvre museum, he conducted then excavations at Arslan Tash (1927) and at Til Barsip (1929–1931).
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