Haithem Aziz

Dr. Haithem Aziz is a Tau'ri who had studied the Gilgamesh Vessel.

Biography
Haithem was the son of a Baathist and prior to the Iraq war, had been an official for Baghdad's Museum of Antiquities. During his time at the museum, Dr. Aziz did a study of the Gilgamesh Vessel with a plan to write a book about it. However, he was unable to decipher the vessel's inscription due to it being in an odd dialect of the Ancient language.

When the war started, Dr. Aziz witnessed the museum being raided and saw the destruction of the Vessel by one of the interior ministers loading it into a truck haphazardly.

After the fall of Saddam, the Shi'a took over and forced Haithem out of his position due to him being a Sunni.

Later on, Dr. Daniel Jackson went to Dr. Aziz for knowledge about the vessel, and he and Vala Mal Doran managed to acquire Haithem's notes and photos that were left locked away in his old office.