Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon
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Austen Layard
(4 Sterne; 1 Bewertungen)
Austen Henry Layard is best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace reliefs known, and in 1851 the library of Ashurbanipal. The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, named after Ashurbanipal, the last great king of the Assyrian Empire, is a collection of thousands of clay tablets and fragments containing texts of all kinds from the 7th century BC. Among its holdings was the famous Epic of Gilgamesh.
In this work, he describes his experiences upon his return to the region for a second expedition. - Summary by Soupy
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Informative & Entertaining Historical Account
Sean O'Shannessy
(4 Sterne)
In his first hand account of exploring the Middle East of the 1850s, while digging in the ruins of ancient Assyria & Babylon, Layard shares unparallelled insights into both eras and allows us to take a fresh perspective on the world we live in today. (Most of the readers were excellent although a couple were difficult to understand)