Word: nineveh
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Little is known about the Jewish temple except that it closely resembled the palaces and temples of Nineveh in many of its details. Hence the decorative work has been copied from reproductions of the latter buildings...
Professor D. G. Lyon gave the second lecture in a course of five on "The Old Testament in the Light of Recent Discoveries at Nineveh and Babylon," Tuesday afternoon, in the parish room of the Church of our Saviour, at Longwood...
...since 1840. The French began investigations in Assyria in 1843, the English in 1845, and a society in Philadelphia has during the past six years made some valuable discoveries. In 1842 M. Botta, French consul at Mosul, was instructed by his 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...
Illustrated Lecture. The Triumph and Fall of Nineveh. The New Babylonian Empire (722-538 B. C). Professor D. G. Lyon. Boylston Hall...
Illustrated Lecture. The Triumph and Fall of Nineveh. The New Babylonian Empire (722-538 B. C.) Professor D. G. Lyon. Boylston Hall...