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August 13

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  1. 1800 CEEgyptian · born

    Ippolito Rosellini, regarded as the founder of Egyptology in Italy and Champollion's collaborator on the Franco-Tuscan expedition, was born in 1800.

  2. 1861 CEMesopotamian · born

    Morris Jastrow Jr., the orientalist who studied Babylonian and Assyrian religion at the University of Pennsylvania, was born in Warsaw.

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