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          Before Austen Henry Layard unearthed its remains, skeptics claimed that Nineveh was just a mythical concoction of Bible writers, or that if it ever existed..

          Austen Henry Layard

          English archaeologist and politician (1817–1894)

          Sir Austen Henry LayardGCB PC (; 5 March 1817 – 5 July 1894) was an English Assyriologist, traveller, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, politician and diplomat.

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        1. Industrial Designer at VALHADEN Studios, ArtCenter, Timbers and Thorns.
        2. In , Austen Henry Lanyard gave his Iraqi assistant Hormuzd Rasaam full credit (amazingly enough for a Victorian era archeologist) for.
        3. Before Austen Henry Layard unearthed its remains, skeptics claimed that Nineveh was just a mythical concoction of Bible writers, or that if it ever existed.
        4. This volume contains an abridgment of the narrative of my second expedition to Assyria and Babylonia, published in , under the title of 'Nineveh and.
        5. Mastery of the map and the trail, the lanyard and the camp fire, even owned by Henry James, Jane Austen, or John.

          6. He was born to a mostly English family in Paris and largely raised in Italy. He is best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace reliefs known, and in 1851 the library of Ashurbanipal.

          Most of his finds are now in the British Museum. He made a large amount of money from his best-selling accounts of his excavations.

          He holds graduate and undergraduate degrees from the Manhattan School of Music, including the Doctor of Musical Arts degree, for which he wrote his dissertation.

          He had a political career between 1852, when he was elected as a Member of Parliament, and 1869, holding various junior ministerial positions. He was then made ambassador to Madrid, then Constantinople, living much of the time in a palazzo he bought in Venice.

          During this period he built up a significant collection of paintings, whic