Word: layard
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Babylon, will speak at 11 o'clock this morning in the Fogg Lecture Room on his recent work near Nippur, south east of Babylon. The discoveries made by Dr. Peters since 1889 have far eclipsed the efforts of the French archaeologists, Botta, Place and de Sarzec, and the Englishmen, Layard, Rassam and Smith...
...government to make some explorations. He excavated near Nineveh an old Assyrian palace, probably built about 700 B. C. The palace has over two hundred chambers. This great discovery is exhaustively described and illustrated in five folio volumes on the subject published by the French government. Mr. Austin Henry Layard, an Englishman, took up the work at Nineveh in 1845-7. Victor Place made some valuable excavations at Khorsabad in 1851-55, an account of which was published in 1857 and again in 1870. Both Botta and Place were especially interested in the Assyrian architecture and sculpture, and much...
...history of the Babylonians and Assyrians with whom the Hebrews came much in contact. From the downfall of their mighty civilization, centuries before Christ, their records were lost till the site of Babylon was identified in 1765. It was not till 1848 that the labors of Botta, Place and Layard brought to light several Assyrian palaces and a mass of sculptures and writings on clay...