Nineveh and Babylon: A Narrative of a Second Expedition to Assyria

by Austen Henry Layard

Publisher:

John Murray

, 1882

This volume chronicles Layard’s expeditions in Assyria from 1849 to 1851. An abridged version of his popular work, Nineveh and Babylon, it recounts the discoveries made and obstacles faced during his excavations. This edition contains numerous woodcut illustrations and gives readers a valuable visual explanation of Layard’s discoveries.

Product Details

• Title: Nineveh and Babylon: A Narrative of a Second Expedition to Assyria during the Years 1849, 1850, & 1851
• Author: Austen Henry Layard
• Publisher: John Murray
• Print Publication Date: 1882
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Pages: 514
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Nineveh (Extinct city); Babylon (Extinct city); Middle East › Description and travel
• Resource ID: LLS:NINVHBABYLAYARD
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T04:46:43Z

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.