L. W. King

Leonard William King (1869–1919) was an English Assyriologist. Educated at Cambridge, he joined the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities of the British Museum in 1892, catalogued and published its cuneiform tablets, and excavated at Nineveh in 1903 and 1904; he also copied the rock inscription of Darius at Behistun. From 1915 he was professor of Assyrian and Babylonian archaeology at King's College, London. His books include Babylonian Religion and Mythology, The Seven Tablets of Creation, A History of Sumer and Akkad, A History of Babylon and, with H. R. Hall, a history of Egypt and Mesopotamia in the light of recent discovery.