Layard's visit, in 1840, to Syria, Asia Minor, Babylon and Assyria. Differences in the ruins described. Dangers in traveling through the area. Layard's visit to area made him desire to investigate the ...

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Of particular interest were the discoveries that Austen Henry Layard and other archaeologists had recently made at the site of Nineveh, near Mosul in modern-day Iraq. Smith spent hours at the ...

The inscription reads: I pray you remember Henry Austen Layard P.C., G.C.B. discoverer of Nineveh. He served his Queen and his country with all his heart and with all his might while representing the ...