Title: The secret of the royal mounds
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.
Subjects: Antiquities, Archaeologists, Excavations (Archaeology), Juvenile literature, Biography, Assyria
Places: Great Britain, Iraq
People: Austen Henry Layard Sir (1817-1894), Austen Henry Layard Sir (1817-1894-)