Behnam Abu Alsoof

Behnam Nasser Nuaman Abu Alsoof (Arabic: بهنام ناصر نعمان أبو الصوف‎ Behnam Abu alsouf) (born 1931 in Mosul, Iraq – 2012) [1] Iraqi archaeologist, anthropologist, historian and writer, he born in Mosul to Christian Syriac family, He completed his elementary and junior high in the city of Mosul, He earned a BA in Archaeology and civilization of the Faculty of Arts, University of Baghdad in 1955, he completed graduate studies at the University of Cambridge,[2] England, and received his doctorate degree in Archaeology and the nucleus of civilization and anthropology in the autumn of 1966, he was at the point scientifically rescue excavations on a wide basin in the Hamrin Dam (in Diyala Governorate), and Mosul Dam on the Tigris River in the late seventies to mid-eighties of the last century, He revealed several archaeological sites in Iraq, including Tell es-Sawwan in Samarra in Saladin Governorate [3] This site was from the Stone Age, Also he led his work at the site of Qainj Agha near Erbil Castle settlers to detect a wide range of Uruk period, with two temples serve those in charge amid a residential neighborhood on the bench of Adobe constitute the beginnings of ziggurats (towers included) in Mesopotamia.[4]

He has several books including: Pottery of Uruk Period: Origins and Spread (English language),[5] The Shadow of the Ancient Valley (Arabic language), Iraq: The Unity of the Earth, Civilization and Human (Arabic language), Lectured for many years at the roots of material civilization and archeology, history in a number of Iraq's universities and the Institute of Arab history for Graduate Studies, He died on September 19, 2012 in Amman, Jordan's capital city at the age of eighty year Because of a heart attack.[6]

Behnam Abu Alsoof was one of academics who oppose the idea of Assyrian identity and that Syriac Christians are not descendants of ancient Assyrians, instead promoting the idea they are Aramaic Nestorians.[7]