Nineveh and its Remains

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"Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city," said the Lord to Jonah. For centuries, generations of scholars pondered the historical truth ofthe scriptures. Had Nineveh actually been a great city? The question would remain unsolved for centuries. But in 1839, a twenty-two-year-old Londoner named Austen Henry Layard left England for Ceylon, modern-day Sri Lanka, seeking a less dreary place in which to practice law. He never got there. Traveling by land, he reached the town of Mosul, on the banks of the Tigris, and spent the next ten years in Persia. Driven by little more than an insatiable desire for discovery, Layard soon became the foremost archeologist of his time, and discovered the ancient ruins of Nineveh at the tender age of thirty-one.
While the British Museum unloaded hundreds of tons of sculpture from Layard's excavation, Layard wrote Nineveh and Its Remains, a popular account of his discoveries reprinted here in an abridged form. The book appeared to rapturous acclaim and... Tovább

Fülszöveg

"Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city," said the Lord to Jonah. For centuries, generations of scholars pondered the historical truth ofthe scriptures. Had Nineveh actually been a great city? The question would remain unsolved for centuries. But in 1839, a twenty-two-year-old Londoner named Austen Henry Layard left England for Ceylon, modern-day Sri Lanka, seeking a less dreary place in which to practice law. He never got there. Traveling by land, he reached the town of Mosul, on the banks of the Tigris, and spent the next ten years in Persia. Driven by little more than an insatiable desire for discovery, Layard soon became the foremost archeologist of his time, and discovered the ancient ruins of Nineveh at the tender age of thirty-one.
While the British Museum unloaded hundreds of tons of sculpture from Layard's excavation, Layard wrote Nineveh and Its Remains, a popular account of his discoveries reprinted here in an abridged form. The book appeared to rapturous acclaim and sold out numerous printings. Readers loved the fluent mix of high adventure and archeology in his books, and intoxicating stew of compelling characters and sudden crises. He made the Assyrians accessible to the common person and brought alive a shadowy Biblical civilization. This book, here with a brand-new introduction by Brian Fagan, made Austen Henry Layard one of the archeological immortals who achieved miracles of discovery against seemingly impossible odds. Vissza