The secret of the royal mounds
Subtitle: Henry Layard and the first cities of Assyria
By: Cynthia Jameson ; illustrated by Pat Cummings.
Contributors: Cummings, Pat.
Publisher: Walker
Published: 1980
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 62
Subjects: Layard, Austen Henry, Sir, 1817-1894- -- Juvenile literature.; Layard, Austen Henry, Sir, 1817-1894.; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Iraq -- Juvenile literature.; Archaeologists -- Iraq -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Archaeologists -- Great Britain -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Archaeologists.; Iraq -- Antiquities -- Juvenile literature.; Iraq -- Antiquities.
Description: Relates the career of the archaeologist who uncovered the ruins of the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh and who is credited with making archaeology a science.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [63]