The monuments and the Old Testament : evidence from ancient records . ris. Botta, inconjunction with Flandin, an architect, prepared, andthe French government published, the results of thisexpedition in five great folio volumes, entitled Monu-ment de Ninive. 30. Mr. A. H. Layard, a young English scholar,visited the East early in the forties to look over theprospects of profitable excavations. Nimroud, amound about twenty miles southeast of Mosul, andabout one and one-half east of the present bed of theTigris, especially attracted his attention. The suc-cesses of Botta stirred up Layards desire
The monuments and the Old Testament : evidence from ancient records . ris. Botta, inconjunction with Flandin, an architect, prepared, andthe French government published, the results of thisexpedition in five great folio volumes, entitled Monu-ment de Ninive. 30. Mr. A. H. Layard, a young English scholar,visited the East early in the forties to look over theprospects of profitable excavations. Nimroud, amound about twenty miles southeast of Mosul, andabout one and one-half east of the present bed of theTigris, especially attracted his attention. The suc-cesses of Botta stirred up Layards desire to beginexcavation, but the means were not at hand. In theautumn of 1845, Sir Stratford Canning indicated hisreadiness to meet the expenses, for a limited time, ofexcavations in Assyria, intimating that a successfulcampaign would guarantee help for the same work inthe future. Mr. Layard at once set out for Mosul,organized his gang, and began work at Nimroud. Thedifficulties in his way were almost beyond the limitsof endurance. But over all he persevered, and in an. AUSTEN HENRY LAYARDARCH^OLOGIST LAYARD AT NINEVEH 49 incredibly short time succeeded in uncovering one ofthe most beautiful palaces of antiquity. This palaceafterward proved to be that of a king of Assyria,Assurnatsirpal, who reigned 884-860 B. C, a con-temporary of Omri, king of Israel. The rooms of thispalace were everywhere wainscoted with alabasterslabs about seven feet high. Marvelous figures in re-lief were found on each separate slab, or sometimesextended over several slabs. Across the middle ofthese were found lines of the same wedge-shapedcharacters. Out of this palace Layard took more thanone hundred colossi and alabaster slabs, and trans-ported a large number of them to the British twenty-five of them may be seen in the muse-ums and colleges of our country. One of the chiefattractions of visitors to the British Museum is thecollection of giant-winged, human-headed bulls andlions, and eagle-he
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