{{Short description|French Assyriologist (1914–1999)}} {{distinguish|text=the illustrator George Roux}} '''Georges Raymond Nicolas Albert Roux''' ({{IPA|fr|ʁu|lang}}; November 16, 1914 – August 12, 1999) was a French writer, author of the popular history books about the Ancient Near East, ''Ancient Iraq'' and ''La Mésopotamie''.
Son of a French Army officer, Roux moved with his family to the Middle East at the age of nine where he subsequently lived for 12 years in Syria and Lebanon before returning to France in 1935.<ref>Ancient Iraq 1965, p.1 (about the author).</ref> Roux was educated by Jesuits in Beirut and studied medicine at the University of Paris, where he graduated in medicine in 1941 and later studied Oriental studies at École pratique des hautes études.
In 1950 Roux became a medical officer for the Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC), spending his first two years in Qatar and the remainder in Iraq. During his time with the IPC the company produced the magazines ''Iraq Petroleum'' and ''The Crescent'', and Roux was commissioned to produce articles. Through the duration of 1956-1960, Roux published a series of articles, ''The Story of Ancient Iraq''. They form the basis of his later books.<ref>{{cite book | first = Georges | last = Roux | title = Ancient Iraq | edition = 3rd | year = 1992 | publisher = Penguin | isbn = 9780140125238 | chapter = Introduction | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/ancientiraq00roux }}</ref><!--recognised and identified ancient sites, largely in the Hammar Lake district of south-eastern Iraq, and corrected conclusions drawn up by the British assyriologist and archeologist, Sir Leonard Woolley.{{fact}}-->
After the 14 July Revolution of Iraq in 1958, Roux returned to Europe and headed the International medical department at GlaxoWellcome, retiring in 1980. In 1964, he published in English ''Ancient Iraq'', a book covering the political, cultural, and socioeconomic history of Mesopotamia.<ref>{{cite web |author= |url=http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780140125238,00.html |title=Ancient Iraq - Georges Roux |publisher=Penguin.co.uk |date=1992-08-27 |accessdate=2015-06-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606235540/http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780140125238,00.html |archive-date=2014-06-06 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=GuardianObit>{{cite web|author=Harry Saggs |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/sep/08/guardianobituaries1 |title=Georges Roux |publisher=Guardian.co.uk |date= |accessdate=2015-06-18}}</ref> In 1985 he published a fuller French work, ''La Mésopotamie'', but the English book's third edition, of 1992, has further enhancements.
==Notable works== * ''Ancient Iraq'' (1964), {{ISBN|014012523X}}; 1972, {{ISBN|0140208283}}; 1992, {{ISBN|978-0140125238}} * ''La Mésopotamie'' (1997), {{ISBN|9782020236362}}
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