Discoveries At Nineveh by Austen Henry Layard, Esq., D.C.L. A Popular Account of Discoveries at Nineveh. Austen Henry Layard. HTML | PDF Contents. Chapter 1 Layard's visit, in 1840, to Syria, Asia ...

In 1849, Layard came upon the ruins of Nineveh (near Mosul in modern-day Iraq), one of the late capitals of the Assyrian Empire. He began digging. Layard and his associates worked hard, but the work ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Old Civilization—Layard's Nineveh ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 8 No. 41 (June 1853), p. 328 doi:10.1038 ...

Layard, Sir H.; Early Adventures in Persia, &c. Skip to content Skip to site index ... THE DISCOVERER OF NINEVEH. Share full article. Feb. 26, 1888. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

Winged Bull: The Extraordinary Life of Henry Layard, the Adventurer Who Discovered the Lost City of Nineveh Jeff Pearce. Prometheus, $29.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-63388-699-5 ...

‘Nineveh’ in Bombay, ... by Paul Emile Botta in 1843-44,who had hoped to find Nineveh. Unknown to them, Layard and Botta both unearthed remains of the palaces of powerful Assyrian ...

Layard stoked great public interest in Assyria with the publication of his book, Nineveh and its Remains (1849). He had also emphasized a connection between East Syriac Christians and the ancient ...

The rudimentary methods of Nineveh’s early excavators, such as the 19th-century British adventurer Austen Henry Layard, could uncover huge areas, but they were heavily concentrated on monumental ...