Title: The conquest of Assyria : excavations in an antique land, 1840- 1860 /
Authors: Larsen, Mogens Trolle.
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Excavations (Archaeology) Middle East; Assyriologists.; Middle East Antiquities
Contents: pt. I. The First Explorers. 1. The mounds of Nineveh. 2. Paolo Emilio Botta. 3. The first palace appears. 4. Austen Henry Layard. 5. The journey into the East. 6. Mesopotamia -- the first impression. 7. Indiana Jones among the Bakhtiyaris. 8. Mosul and Constantinople. 9. Nimrud. 10. The ideal English soldier. 11. The return of Nimrod. 12. But is it art? 13. Cholera and small-mindedness. 14. Monuments and inscriptions. 15. Packing bulls and other luggage. 16. Triumph and revolution -- pt. II. The Excavation of Sennacherib's Palace. 17. Home again. 18. Depths of time. 19. Eusebius or Moses? 20. The mysteries of cuneiform. 21. Back to Constantinople. 22. Mosul revisited. 23. An encounter on Nimrud. 24. Rawlinson in paradise. 25. Palaces and treasures. 26. Guests. 27. Pastoral. 28. Disasters and new discoveries. 29. Summer in the palace. 30. Babylonia. 31. Goodbye to Assyria -- pt. III. Victor Place and Hormuzd Rassam. 32. Rawlinson gets it right. 33. New men, new excavations. 34. Jealousy and ill-feeling. 35. War. 36. Shipwreck. 37. Fates.