Botta
PAUL EMILE, a French traveler and archæologist, born in Turin, Dec. 6, 1802; was appointed French Consul at Alexandria in 1833. He undertook a journey to Arabia in 1837, described in his "Relation d'un Voyage dans l'Yémen." He discovered the ruins of ancient Nineveh in 1843. He published two important works-one on the cuneiform writing of the Assyrians ("Mé- BOTTOMRY moire de l'Écriture Cuneiforme Assyrienne"), and the other upon the monuments of Nineveh ("Monuments de Ninive," 5 vols. folio, with drawings by Flandin, Paris, 1846-1850). He died in Achères, March 29, 1870.