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 · Nineveh and its remains Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Share to Twitter. Share to Facebook. Share to Reddit. Nineveh and its remains by Layard, Austen Henry, Sir, Publication date Topics Nestorians, Yezidis, Excavations (Archaeology) Publisher New York, Praeger CollectionUser Interaction Count: K.  · In the middle of the nineteenth century, British archeologist Austen Henry Layard uncovered parts of several ancient Assyrian cities buried beneath the earth, including the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, Nineveh. Nineveh was one of the greatest cities of its time and was an important religious center around BC. Commerce and religion thrived in the city, which was decorated with. Sir Austen Henry Layard GCB PC (/l#;#;rd/; 5 March 5 July ) was an English traveler, archaeologist, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, politician and diplomat. He is best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace reliefs known, and in the library of Ashurbanipal (Wikipedia).

Nineveh and Its Remains. by. Austen Henry Layard, Brian M. Fagan (Introduction) · Rating details · 42 ratings · 5 reviews. An intoxicating stew of compelling characters and sudden crises during the discovery of the ancient ruins of Nineveh by the foremost archeologist of his time. Nineveh and Its Remains: with an account of a visit to the Chaldaean Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, or devil-worshippers; and an enquiry into the manners and arts of the ancient Assyrians. LAYARD, Austen Henry. Published by John Murray. , Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom. Nineveh and its remains, in two volumes () The Monuments of Nineveh, in two volumes ( and ) A Popular Account of Discoveries at Nineveh, abridged version of Nineveh and its remains, () "Layard, Sir Austen Henry," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., ).

Nineveh And Its Remains by Austen Henry Layard Seller Ergodebooks Published Condition Used:Good ISBN Item Price $. Layard, A.H. (), A Popular Account of Discoveries at Nineveh., John Murray (London), abridged version of Nineveh and its remains () Layard, A.H. (), Discoveries among the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon; with travels in Armenia, Kurdistan, and the desert: being the result of a second expedition undertaken for the Trustees of the. Layard became the foremost archeologist of his time, and discovered the ancient ruins of Nineveh at the tender age of thirty-one. While the British Museum unloaded hundreds of tons of sculpture from Layard's excavation, Layard wrote Nineveh and Its Remains, a popular account of his discoveries reprinted here in an unabridged form.