A Popular Account of Discoveries at Nineveh

by Austen Henry Layard

Publisher:

John Murray

, 1851

Overview

A Popular Account of Discoveries at Nineveh offers an abridged version of Layard’s research and findings originally presented in Nineveh and Its Remains. It details his journey through Assyrian lands, his encounters with desert tribes, and his archaeological work and findings. This volume includes woodcut illustrations and an index.

Key Features

• Provides a popular account of the discoveries of Austin Henry Layard
• Details Layard’s journey through Assyria and other adventures
• Includes woodcut illustrations and a helpful index

Product Details

• Title: A Popular Account of Discoveries at Nineveh
• Author: Austen Henry Layard
• Publisher: John Murray
• Publication Date: 1851
• Pages: 386
• Resource Type: Topical
• Topic: Bible Backgrounds

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.