Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon: with travels in Armenia, Kurdistan and Desert

by Austen Henry Layard

Publisher:

Harper & Brothers

, 1871

Overview

In twenty-six exciting chapters, Austen Henry Layard chronicles his oftentimes hazardous travels throughout the Middle East and recounts the thrilling archeological findings made by his team at the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon. There, his team unearthed the remains of five palaces and several temples, filled with numerous artifacts that are still a large attraction at the British Museum’s collection of Assyrian antiquities. A vividly written page-turner, Layard’s travelogue is as valuable as the historical treasure he unearthed in the desert.

Key Features

• Full of Scriptural landmarks
• Chronicles Layard's discoveries at Nineveh and Babylon
• All Scripture references are linked directly to the Bibles in your Logos Library

Praise for the Print Edition

It would be impossible to overstate the historical value of Dr. Layard's Nineveh and Babylon.

—Christian Remembrancer

Product Details

• Title: Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon: with travels in Armenia, Kurdistan and Desert
• Author: Austen Henry Layard
• Publisher: Harper
• Publication Date: 1871
• Pages: 704

About Austen Henry Layard

Austen Henry Layard (1817–1894) was born in Paris, but he traveled often in his youth. He was educated in Italy, England, Switzerland, and France. After spending six years working for his uncle’s law firm, he left to travel and explore the Middle East. After his first successful excavations at Kuyunjik and Nimrud, Layard continued his archeological explorations at the ruins of Babylon and the mounds of southern Mesopotamia. (Many of the specimens that he found make up a large part of the British Museum’s collection of Assyrian antiquities.) Layard then returned to England, where he took up a life of politics, serving as under-secretary for foreign affairs and ambassador at Constantinople. Layard retired in Italy, where he continued to write about Italian art and penned the popular account of his earliest travels, Early Adventures in Persia, Susiana, and Babylonia.