Austen Henry Layard (1817-1894). English archaeologist. Best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Niniveh. Engraving.

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Austen Henry Layard (1817-1894). English traveller, archaeologist, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, author, politician and diplomat, best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Niniveh. Engraving by Capuz. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1870.

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