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 ...

Historian Chaplin (The First Scientific American) provides an enthralling exploration of Benjamin Franklin’s little-remembered but most commercially successful invention. The Continue reading » ...

An ancient temple near Niniveh (AP). Austen Henry Layard was a 28-year-old British adventurer, a lawyer by trade, who in the 1840s traveled across Mesopotamia in search of biblical cities. In 1849, ...

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The lamassu statues are exact replicas of two originals held at the British Museum in London, where they were taken by the archaeologist and historian Sir Austen Henry Layard in 1850. But long before ...

Archaeologists in northern Iraq, working on the Mashki and Adad gate sites in Mosul that were destroyed by Islamic State in 2016, recently uncovered 2,700-year-old Assyrian reliefs. Featuring war ...

Recovered from Nineveh in the late 19th century, shattered clay tablets covered in indecipherable writing held one of the world’s greatest treasures. Locked within the characters lay the Epic of ...

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