Nineveh and Its Palaces

The author presents the discoveries of Botta and Layard and applies them to the writings of the Bible. This third edition charts all the discoveries made in the 1800s with chronological tables. The volume contains 273 illustrations.

Contenu

• The buried city and its discoveries
• Botta
• Layard
• Assyria and Mesopotamia
• The Assyria and Mesopotamia of Classical Writers
• Sketch of Assyrian History
• Khorsabad
• Nimroud, Kouyunjik, and Nebbi Yunis
• Kalah Sherghat
• Babylon, Persepolis, Behistun, Nahr-Al-Kelb, and Cyprus
• Khorsabad
• Nimroud and the Sculptures in the British Museum
• Kouyunjik
• Costume
• Assyria Inscriptions and their Interpretation
• Latest Proceedings and Discoveries in Assyria