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: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
Published: 1980
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 62
Subjects: Layard, Austen Henry, -- Sir, -- 1817-1894 -- Juvenile literature; Archaeologists -- Juvenile literature; Iraq -- Antiquities -- Juvenile literature
Genres: Juvenile literature
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.
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