{"product_id":"discoveries-in-the-ruins-of-nineveh-and-babylon-72803-62494","title":"Discoveries in the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon # 72803","description":"Discoveries in the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon. With travels in Armenia, Kurdistan and the desert. Being the result of a second expedition undertaken for the trustees of the British Museum. By Austen H. Layard, MP, Author of \u003ci\u003eNineveh and its remains\u003c\/i\u003e .\u003cbr\u003e With Maps, Plans and Illustrations.\u003cbr\u003e A good copy, maps, drawings and illustrations all complete and good.\u003cbr\u003e Sir Austen Henry Layard GCB PC (5 March 1817 – 5 July 1894) was an English Assyriologist, traveller, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, politician and diplomat. He was born to a mostly English family in Paris and largely raised in Italy. He is best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace reliefs known, and in 1851 the library of Ashurbanipal. Most of his finds are now in the British Museum. He made a large amount of money from his best-selling accounts of his excavations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHe had a political career between 1852, when he was elected as a Member of Parliament, and 1869, holding various junior ministerial positions. He was then made ambassador to Madrid, then Constantinople, living much of the time in a palazzo he bought in Venice. During this period he built up a significant collection of paintings, which due to a legal loophole he had as a diplomat, he was able to extricate from Venice and bequeath to the National Gallery (as the Layard Bequest) and other British museums.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bókin.is","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51121599840584,"sku":"OSC-62494","price":69500.0,"currency_code":"ISK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0916\/4029\/9848\/files\/72803.jpg?v=1754725699","url":"https:\/\/www.bokin.is\/en\/products\/discoveries-in-the-ruins-of-nineveh-and-babylon-72803-62494","provider":"bokin.is","version":"1.0","type":"link"}