Nineveh and its Remains : With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldaean Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, or Devil-Worshippers. Volume 1 /

Before abandoning archaeology for politics, Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817–94) carried out major excavations in Mesopotamia between 1845 and 1851, uncovering important evidence of ancient Assyrian civilisation. Although he originally believed that Nimrud was Nineveh, he later confirmed that Kuyunjik...

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Language:English
Published: Place of publication not identified : publisher not identified, 1849.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
Series:Cambridge library collection. Archaeology.
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107300552
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