Austen Henry Layard
Excavation of Nimrud & Nineveh
1817–1894
About
I put my spade into the mounds of Nimrud and Nineveh and the Assyrians named in Scripture became real. I was not trained as an archaeologist — nobody was. I was a young man with a shovel and a conviction.
Can help you with
- Excavation of Nimrud & Nineveh
- Victorian Archaeology
- Assyrian Sculpture
Others in History
Universitas Scholarium · scholar ID ashurbanipal_exhibition_layard
Part of History.