Word: botta
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this region. The French government was the first to make an organized effort for discovery. During the first part of the century attempts were made from time to time, but it was not until the middle of the century that the greatest energy was shown. A French consul named Botta made the most important discovery. At a small town near the site of ancient Nineveh in Assyria, he set to work, and after much labor his workmen succeeded in unearthing an ancient Assyrian palace of huge proportions. During this time discoveries were being made also in the southern part...
Babylonian Books. Their discovery by Botta, Layard, and other explorers. Illustrated lecture. Professor Lyon. Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
Babylonian Books. Their discovery by Botta, Layard, and other explorers. Illustrated lecture. Professor Lyon. Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
...Close connection between archaeological and linguistic discoveries: excavations of Botta, Layard, Place, Oppert, George Smith, Rassam and De Sarzec...
...Views Afoot; Choate's Elements of English Speech; Crawford's American Politician; Reid's Life and Times of Sydney Smith; Max Muller's Biographical Essays; Edmund Yates' Fifty Years of London Life; Julian Hawthorne's Hawthorne and his Wife; Cable's Creole of Louisiana, Hedge on Atheism in Philosophy, Botta's Handbook of Universal Literature; Ainger's Charles Lamb...