DISCOVERIES AMONG THE RUINS OF NINEVEH AND BABYLON; WITH TRAVELS IN ARMENIA, KURDISTAN, AND THE DESERT: BEING THE RESULT OF A SECOND EXPEDITION UNDERTAKEN FOR THE TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM
Sir Austin Henry Layard (1817-1894) was an English traveler, art historian, politician and diplomat. He is well known as the excavator of Nineveh and Nimrud, ancient Assyrian cities in the mid-XIX century, and the founder of the famous Assyrian king Assurbanapals’s library. The results of his works in Mesopotamia had appeared in several publications - in the extensive book “The Monuments of Nineveh” (2 volumes, London, 1849), “Discoveries among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon with travels in Armenia, Kurdistan, and the desert” (London, 1853), “A Second series of the Monuments of Nineveh” (London, 1853). As a diplomat A.H.Layard was appointed as envoy extraordinary to Spain in 1869 and ambassador to the Ottoman empire in 1877
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