. Nineveh and Babylon : a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, & 1851. 1-83. Portrait.;• voIh. Ilwt (*vo. &j. each. WILKINSONS (SIR .1. G.) POPULAR ACCOUNT UF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. Woodcuts. 2 vols. Post Svo. 12i. JOHN :\!rRR.\T, Albemarle Street. Nineveh and Babylon By the same. Aicthor. NINEVEH AND ITS REMAINS: a PopularAccount of Researches and Discoveries at Nineveh,during an Expedition to Assyria in 1845-7. Withnumerous Illustrations. Post 8vo. 75. 6d, This new edition has been carefully revised. Subsequent discoveriesamongst the ruins of Nineveh, and
. Nineveh and Babylon : a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, & 1851. 1-83. Portrait.;• voIh. Ilwt (*vo. &j. each. WILKINSONS (SIR .1. G.) POPULAR ACCOUNT UF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. Woodcuts. 2 vols. Post Svo. 12i. JOHN :\!rRR.\T, Albemarle Street. Nineveh and Babylon By the same. Aicthor. NINEVEH AND ITS REMAINS: a PopularAccount of Researches and Discoveries at Nineveh,during an Expedition to Assyria in 1845-7. Withnumerous Illustrations. Post 8vo. 75. 6d, This new edition has been carefully revised. Subsequent discoveriesamongst the ruins of Nineveh, and the progress made in the interpretationof the cuneiform inscriptions, have enabled the Author to add to the text,and have led him to modify some of the views which were expressed in hisoriginal work. For the convenience of his readers he has added to theaccount of his visit to the Yezidis, or Devil-Worshippers, the narrative ofsubaciuent visits to that curious sect. He has thus brought together allthe information which he has been able to collect concerning them.—Pre/acelo the present Nineveh and Babylon A NARRATIVE OF A SECOND EXPEDITION TO ASSYRIA During the Years 1849, 1850, & 1S51 BY THE RIGHT HON. SIR AUSTEN HENRY LAYARD &c gibribgcb bg tijt ^utbor from bis ITargcr Mork NEW EDITION ^F/Tff NUMEROUS IVOODCUTS LONDONJOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET The right of translation is reserved LONDON : PRINTHD I!V AND CO., NEW-STRETT SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT STKEET PREFACE. This volume contains an abridgment of the narrativemy second expedition to Assyria and Babylonia, publishein 1853, under the title of Nineveh and Babylon. ihave described, in the Introduction, the principal discoverieson the site of Nineveh made after my return to England inthe spring of 1851. Further researches amongst the ruins after my departurefrom Assyria, and the contents of the cuneiform inscriptionsas deciphered by English and French scholars, have addedto our knowledge o
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