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Discoveries in the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon # 72803 [Forlagsband]

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Discoveries in 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. By Austen H. Layard, M.P., Author of Nineveh and its remains.
With Maps, Plans and Illustrations.
Sir Austen Henry Layard GCB PC (5 March 1817 – 5 July 1894) was an English Assyriologist, traveller, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, politician and diplomat. He was born to a mostly English family in Paris and largely raised in Italy. 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. Most of his finds are now in the British Museum. He made a large amount of money from his best-selling accounts of his excavations.
He had a political career between 1852, when he was elected as a Member of Parliament, and 1869, holding various junior ministerial positions. He was then made ambassador to Madrid, then Constantinople, living much of the time in a palazzo he bought in Venice. During this period he built up a significant collection of paintings, which due to a legal loophole he had as a diplomat, he was able to extricate from Venice and bequeath to the National Gallery (as the Layard Bequest) and other British museums.

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New York. Harpen & Brothers, Publishers, 1853.