The Conquest of Assyria: Excavations in an Antique Land, 1840-1860

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Psychology Press, 1996 - 390 من الصفحات

The Conquest of Assyria tells what must surely be one of the most romantic tales of archaeological endeavour. The great cities and ancient palaces of Mesopotamia had lain buried for over two millenia, and were all but forgotten, half remembered in the Hebrew Bible and Classical texts. This volume records the dramatic finds, the decipherment of the cuneiform system of writing and the rediscovery of a lost civilisation.

 

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The mounds of Nineveh
11
Paolo Emilio Botta
17
14
21
The first palace appears
29
Austen Henry Layard
34
The journey into the East
40
Mesopotamia the first impression
45
Indiana Jones among the Bakhtiyaris
52
45
198
An encounter on Nimrud
206
Rawlinson in paradise
215
Palaces and treasures
228
Guests
236
Pastoral
244
Disasters and new discoveries
255
Summer in the palace
266

Mosul and Constantinople
61
Nimrud
71
The ideal English soldier
79
The return of Nimrod
97
But is it art?
99
Cholera and smallmindedness
108
Monuments and inscriptions
115
Packing bulls and other luggage
131
Triumph and revolution
137
THE EXCAVATION OF SENNACHERIBS PALACE
143
Home again
145
40
150
Depths of time
157
Eusebius or Moses?
166
The mysteries of cuneiform
177
Back to Constantinople
189
Mosul revisited
196
Babylonia
275
Goodbye to Assyria
286
VICTOR PLACE AND HORMUZD RASSAM
291
Rawlinson gets it right
293
New men new excavations
306
Jealousy and illfeeling
317
War
333
Shipwreck
344
Fates
350
Notes
364
61
365
88
366
NJ R R 28123
367
Bibliography
372
Index
381
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