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Wilfred G. Lambert was an English Assyriologist and historian of ancient Near Eastern civilizations. He was a professor of Assyriology at the University of Birmingham from 1965 to 1991. He was a Fellow of the British Academy and a member of the Royal Asiatic Society. Lambert was born in Erdington, Birmingham, England, on 26 February 1926. He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and at the University of Birmingham, where he obtained a B.A. in Classics in 1947 and a Ph.D. in Assyriology in 1951. Lambert's research focused on the ancient Near East, particularly Mesopotamia and its literature. He wrote extensively on the Sumerian language, literature, and religion, and was a leading authority on the Epic of Gilgamesh. He was the author of numerous books and articles, including Babylonian Creation Myths (1965), The Babylonian Epic of Creation (1965), The Ancient Near East (1972), and The Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh (1972). Lambert was a Fellow of the British Academy and a member of the Royal Asiatic Society. He was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1991 for his services to Assyriology. He died on 28 April 2011 in Birmingham, England.

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Born 26 February 1926
Birthday 26 February
Birthplace Chudleigh Road, Erdington, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Date of death (2011-11-09)
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Nationality United Kingdom

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2010

Lambert taught and researched at the University of Birmingham for thirty years, during which period he made weekly trips to work on deciphering cuneiform tablets in the British Museum. After retirement, he worked with the Museum on their Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals Project, dealing with the inscriptions on the seals. In January 2010, Professor Lambert and Dr Irving Finkel identified pieces from a cuneiform tablet that was inscribed with the same text as the Cyrus Cylinder.

1971

Lambert was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1971. He was also a presenting member of the Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (International Congress of Assyriology and Near Eastern Archaeology).

1944

Lambert was a Christadelphian, and a conscientious objector. From 1944, he worked in a horticultural nursery north of Birmingham in lieu of military service and supervised Italian prisoners of war in their work. Later, in his spare time, he was editor of one of his church's quarterly magazines.

1926

Wilfred George Lambert FBA (26 February 1926 – 9 November 2011) was a historian and archaeologist, a specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern Archaeology.