Jean Bottéro

Jean Bottéro (30 August 1914 – 15 December 2007) was a French historian, assyriologist, Bible and ancient Near East scholar, and one of the world’s leading experts on Mesopotamia. He was a major Assyriologist, a renowned expert on the Ancient Near East and director of the Assyriology Chair at the ''École pratique des hautes études''. Provided by Wikipedia