Ancient World
Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon
Austen Layard
1853
17h 53m
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He dug into a mound in Mesopotamia and pulled an empire out of it. Layard found Nineveh and Nimrud, floated colossal winged bulls down the Tigris on rafts, and turned up the clay archive that finally let scholars read Assyrian, in an account that is half excavation report and half adventure story, and honest about which parts were luck.
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36 chapters
- 1Prefatory note & Preface5m
- 2Chapter 127m
- 3Chapter 220m
- 4Chapter 328m
- 5Chapter 445m
- 6Chapter 5 part 147m
- 7Chapter 5 part 233m
- 8Chapter 650m
- 9Chapter 726m
- 10Chapter 828m
- 11Chapter 933m
- 12Chapter 1031m
- 13Chapter 11 part 125m
- 14Chapter 11 part 238m
- 15Chapter 1224m
- 16Chapter 1331m
- 17Chapter 1433m
- 18Chapter 1520m
- 19Chapter 1636m
- 20Chapter 1735m
- 21Chapter 1830m
- 22Chapter 1935m
- 23Chapter 2034m
- 24Chapter 20 (alternate reading)28m
- 25Chapter 2138m
- 26Chapter 22 part 130m
- 27Chapter 22 part 224m
- 28Chapter 2330m
- 29Chapter 24 part 128m
- 30Chapter 24 part 227m
- 31Chapter 25 part 130m
- 32Chapter 25 part 226m
- 33Chapter 26 part 140m
- 34Chapter 26 part 229m
- 35Chapter 26 part 324m
- 36Conclusion6m
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