Edward Hincks
Irish Assyriologist (1792–1866) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the United States Army officer, see Edward Winslow Hincks.
Edward Hincks (19 August 1792 – 3 December 1866) was an Irish clergyman, best remembered as an Assyriologist and one of the decipherers of Mesopotamian cuneiform. He was one of the three men known as the "holy trinity of cuneiform", with Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson and Jules Oppert.
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