Nineveh and Its Palaces
Subtitle: The Discoveries of Botta and Layard, Applied to the Elucidation of Holy Writ
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: September 3, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9781421253534
Subjects: Nineveh,its palaces,ancient hustory,discoveries,Botta Paul,Layard Austen Henry,Joseph Bonomi; Art / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions; History / Ancient / Greece
First sentence: FAR away-a thousand miles-from the highways of modern commerce, and the tracks of ordinary travel, lay a city buried in the sandy earth of a half-desert Turkish province, with no certain trace of its place of sepulchre.