After acquiring a taste for travel and art in his youth, Austen Henry Layard quickly found his calling as a traveler and archaeologist. His wanderlust drew him from London toward Asia, and he spent a great deal of time exploring Jerusalem, Persia, and Mesopotamia. His curiosity was piqued by the ruins of Nimrud on the Tigris and the great mound of Kuyunjik near Mosul, and he began his own excavations shortly after seeing those monuments. His groundbreaking work uncovered sites in Nineveh, Babylon, and Assyria, greatly increasing our knowledge of Mesopotamian civilizations through the recovery of cuneiform tablets that detailed Assyrian and Babylonian culture and history. Layard’s extraordinary contributions to biblical archaeology changed the face of biblical research and scholarship.
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