Austen Henry Layard

Si Sir Austen Henry Layard  (; 5 Marso 1817 – 5 Hulyo 1894) ay isang Ingles na manlalakbay, arkeologo, dalubhasa sa kuniporme, mananalaysay sa sining, dibuhante, kolektor, politiko at diplomatiko. Mas-kilala siya bilang manghuhukay ng Nimrud at Niniveh, kung saang natagpuan niya ang isang malaking proporsiyon ng kilalang Assyrian palace relief, at noong 1851 ang aklatan ni Ashurbanipal.

Mga sanggunian

Mga karagdagang babasahin
 Brackman, Arnold C. The Luck of Nineveh: Archaeology's Great Adventure. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1978 (hardcover, ); New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1981 (paperback, ).
 Jerman, B.R. The Young Disraeli. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1960.
 Kubie, Nora Benjamin. Road to Nineveh: the adventures and excavations of Sir Austen Henry Layard (1964; 1965 in the UK)
 Larsen, Mogens T. The Conquest of Assyria. Routledge. 1996.  – the best modern account of Layard.
 Lloyd, Seton. Foundations in the Dust: The Story of Mesopotamian Exploration. London; New York: Thames & Hudson, 1981 (hardcover, ).
 Waterfield, Gordon. Layard of Nineveh. London: John Murray, 1963.

 Kuneralp Sinan (ed.). The Queen's Ambassador to the Sultan. Memoirs of Sir Henry A. Layard's Constantinople Embassy 1877-1880. The ISIS Press, Istanbul 2009.  .
 Silverberg, Robert.  The man who found Nineveh. The story of Austen Henry Layard. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1964.

Mga kawing panlabas

 Nineveh and its Remains (vol. 1) (1849)
 Nineveh and its Remains (vol. 2) (1849)
 The Monuments of Nineveh  (1849)
 The Monuments of Nineveh (1853)
 A Second Series of the Monuments of Nineveh (1853)
 The Monuments of Nineveh (1849–53)
 Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon (1853).
 A Popular Account of Discoveries at Nineveh (1854)
 The Ninevah Court in the Crystal Palace (1854)
 Autobiography and letters from his childhood until his appointment as H.M. Ambassador at Madrid (vol. 1) (1903)
 Autobiography and letters from his childhood until his appointment as H.M. Ambassador at Madrid (vol. 2) (1903)
 Layard Papers digitized at the British Library


Kategorya:Ipinanganak noong 1817
Kategorya:Namatay noong 1894
Kategorya:Mga Britaniko