Hormuzd Rassam, explorer and archaeologist Robert Anderson and JP Morgan

and JP Morgan

The launching of the buoy marking the spot where the cable had been grappled

El Capitan and Half Dome

1st May 1952

Hormuzd Rassam, explorer and archaeologist Robert Anderson and JP MorganHormuzd Rassam, explorer and archaeologist, 1881. Rassam (1826 1910) was born in Mosul, in modern Iraq. In 1845 1847 he assisted the British archaeologist AH Layard in his first expedition to the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh. Rassam then studied at Oxford before being sent by the trustees of the British Museum to assist Layard on his second Assyrian expedition of 1849 1851. He subsequently continued work on various Assyrian sites, making numerous