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Title: Nineveh and Babylon : a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, & 1851
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Layard, Austen Henry, Sir, 1817-1894
Subjects: Nineveh (Extinct city) Babylon (Extinct city) Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ants, and of a barbarous people. What, it mightbe asked, should we know of the Greeks if only theirmonumental records had been preserved to us ? Fortunately,however, the Assyrian inscriptions contain more than mereroyal annals; and although we cannot ascertain the intellec-tual advancement which the Assyrian people may have made,as we have no written literature belonging to them, suchas happily has been preserved to us from ancient Greece,yet we have in the vast collection of inscriptions on marbleand baked clay, dug up from the ruins of Nineveh and Ba-bylon, and in the monuments themselves, ample materials toprove that the Assyrians had made great progress in thosearts and sciences which distinguish a civilised people. Thediscoveries in Assyria and Babylonia have enabled us toreach one of the remotest sources of that mighty stream ofhuman progress which has developed, through Greece andRome, into our present civilisation. It is in this that theirgreat interest and importance consist.
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NINEVEH AND BABYLON. CHAPTER I. Reneival of excavations in Assyria—Return to Mosul—Discoveries atKouyunjik— Visit to Nimrotid—Excavations in the Mound—Mr. H.Rassam—Sculptures represejiting transport of winged bulls discovci-ed atKouyunjik—Fresh sculptures—Discovery of gateway—High Aloundat Nimroud explored. In the summer of 1849 I had returned to my post at Con-stantinople as an attache to her Majestys Embassy. Thegeneral interest expressed in England at the result of thediscoveries on the site of Nineveh, during my first expeditionto Assyria, induced the Trustees of the British Museum tocontinue the excavations, and, having obtained a grant ofmoney for that purpose from the Government, they requestedme to undertake their direction. I cheerfully consented toreturn to Mosul, and to carry on further researches amongstthe Assyrian ruins. My preparations having been soon com-pleted, I left the Turkish capital at the end of August. Iwas accompanied by Mr. F. Cooper, an ar

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