R. Campbell Thompson

Reginald Campbell Thompson (21 August 1876 – 23 May 1941) was a British archaeologist, Assyriologist and cuneiformist. He excavated at Nineveh, Ur, Nebo, Carchemish and other sites. == Biography == Thompson was born at Cranley Place, South Kensington, the eldest of five children of Dr. Reginald Edward Thompson (1834-1912) and Anne Isabella De Morgan, and educated at Colet Court, St Paul's School and Caius College, Cambridge, where he read oriental (Hebrew and Aramaic) languages. In 1904 he fo…