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Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon
by
Layard, Austin Henry
London, The Folio Society, 2011
Hardcover, tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall, xxiv + 633pp. Illustrated blue cloth boards with titles on spine, internally clean and bright, profusely illustrated with colour plates and in-text figures. A fine copy in a slipcase that shows faint wear from storage. Heavy item, may incur additional shipping costs for international delivery.
In 1842, the urbane, cosmopolitan scholar Austen Henry Layard was on his way to become a barrister in Ceylon when he changed his mind and turned back. He was determined to investigate a site in present-day Iraq which he correctly believed to be the Assyrian citadel of Nineveh. Published as Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, this is Layard’s account of his second visit to the area (1849–51) and it recounts the story of one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the 19th century. In an age when new evolutionary theories had cast doubt on the literal truth of the Bible, Layard had found a city of the Old Testament which had previously seemed as fabulous as Atlantis or Eden. There he discovered a series of gigantic winged bulls that guarded the gateway to the Palace of Sennacherib. ‘It would be difficult to describe the effect produced … when, after winding through the dark, underground passages, you suddenly came into their presence. Between them Sennacherib and his hosts had gone forth in all their might and glory to the conquest of distant lands…’ These gates, removed by Layard and his team, are now among the foremost treasures of the British Museum.
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