'DISCOVERIES IN THE RUINS OF NINEVEH AND BABYLON; WITH TRAVELS IN ARMENIA, KURDISTAN AND THE DESERT.' - Hardcover

Layard, Austen H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0705415082 ISBN 13: 9780705415088

Publisher: Time-Life, 1987

Synopsis

1983, facsimile from the original 1853 edition. Faux-leather boards, red title panel with gilt titles and decorations on spine. All gilt edges. Fold-out illustration at front and several others throughout, large fold-out map at the end, marbled endpapers. Nine wood-cut illustrations. Sir Austen Henry Layard GCB PC (5 March 1817 – 5 July 1894) was an English traveler, archaeologist, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, politician and diplomat. He 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. (Wikipedia) Layard's excavations provided important evidence about ancient Mesopotamia, particularly about the Assyrian civilisation, and his books - part travel writing, part specialized archaeological studies - are beautifully evocative. First published in 1853, this two-volume study follows the earlier Nineveh and its Remains (1849). It describes Layard's second expedition to the Near East, in 1845, which led to the identification of Kouyunjik as the great Assyrian capital Nineveh. In this richly illustrated book, Layard focuses on the description and interpretation of ruins, as he tells of the discovery of the lost palace of the Assyrian king Sennacherib (eighth century BCE) in northern Iraq.

Edition details

• Publisher: Time-Life
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0705415082
• ISBN 13: 9780705415088
• Binding: Hardcover