L. van King

L. W. King (Leonard William King) was an English archaeologist and Assyriologist born in London on 8 December 1869. He worked in the Egyptian and Assyrian department of the British Museum, led excavations at Nineveh, taught Assyrian and Babylonian archaeology at King’s College, London, and published widely on Babylonian religion, mythology, magic, and cuneiform texts. He died in London on 20 August 1919.