Nineveh and its effects

In 1845, the British traveler Austin Layard headed the archaeological excavations at Qoynaq Hill and the Nimrud area and uncovered the lost palace of King Sennacherib, which contained seventy-one halls and prominent sculptures. He also discovered the palace of Ashurbanipal and his library, which included more than twenty thousand Sumerian clay figures. The book contains an exciting description of ...