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4 days ago · Excavations by Iraqi archaeologist Muzahim Hussein in 1993 relocated the slab in the so-called "Upper Chambers" area of the Nimurd citadel, first excavated by Austen Henry Layard, and Dr. Ali Yassin Ahmad published the inscription in the Iraqi journal Sumer (LI nos. 1–2, pp. 27–31). Excavations by a University of Pennsylvania Museum team led by American archaeologist Dr. Michael Danti in the "Upper Chambers," more properly the Palace of King Adad Nerari III, re-examined this area in 2022.
2 days ago · The Akkadian text of the Epic of Gilgamesh was first discovered in 1849 AD by the English archaeologist Austen Henry Layard in the Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh. [ 22 ] [ 50 ] [ 28 ] : 95 Layard was seeking evidence to confirm the historicity of the events described in the Hebrew Bible , i.e. the Christian Old Testament , [ 22 ] which was believed to contain the oldest texts in the world. [ 22 ]
3 days ago · One of the most overlooked items in the Ancient Orient section of the Istanbul Archaeological Museum is the 8th century BCE marble Lamassu statue discovered in Assur, Iraq in 1845 by Austen Henry Layard. This particular statue was used in the entrance of an Assyrian royal tomb.
3 days ago · – The site has yielded similar finds from previous excavations, the earliest of which was in the 1840s under British archaeologist Austen Henry Layard. – The recent find is thought to have been one of two excavated by Layard, with the other having been taken back to the British Museum in London where it is still on display.
16 hours ago · Austen Henry Layard. Der wahre Kara Ben Nemsi. Auf den Spuren des englischen Archäologen durch den Orient; Abenteuer in der Wüste. Kurdische Freiheitskämpfer und verfolgte Jesiden. Warum der Orientzyklus um Kara Ben Nemsi noch immer aktuell ist; Die Reise in den Orient. 1899 bricht Karl May in den Osten auf.
1 day ago · The 'Art element' was, however, always avowedly represented on the committee, and when Eastlake died late in 1865 he was succeeded in January 1866 by (Sir) Henry Layard. The choice not of an artist but of an art-loving Liberal statesman had the merit of enlisting an enthusiast for the memorial design who was also a prominent member of the party that was generally less sympathetic to the project than the Conservatives.
2 days ago · Illustration of a hall in the Assyrian Palace of Ashurnasrirpal II by Austen Henry Layard (1854) Mosaic panel (using stone cones) decorating a wall of one of the temple at the city of Warka (Uruk), Iraq. 2nd half of the 4th millennium BCE.