Sir Austen Henry Layard

Standard Name: Layard, Sir Austen Henry

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Charlotte Guest
CG 's friends included Benjamin Disraeli (with whom she shared poetical enthusiasms before her first marriage), and her cousin Henry Layard , who became famous as an archaeologist (the discoverer of ancient Nineveh) and who...

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October 1845: Henry Layard began excavating the ruins of...

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October 1845

Henry Layard began excavating the ruins of Nineveh, capital of Assyria, aided by both his scholarly reading and his experience of sharing the life of local tribes.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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