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LAYARD, Austen Henry
LAYARD, Austen Henry, Sir (b.
5 March 1817, Paris; d. 5 July 1894, London), French archeologist and politician (FIGURE 1, FIGURE 2, FIGURE 3).
Layard is chiefly known for his excavations in northern Iraq between 1845 and 1851.
Nineveh and Babylon by Austen Henry Layard Folio Society Hardcover Book.He worked mainly at the Assyrian sites of Nimrud and Nineveh, in the North-West Palace of Assurnasirpal II (883-859 BCE) and the South-West Palace of Sennacherib (704-681 BCE) where he found many stone bas-reliefs and colossal stone figures, as well as large numbers of cuneiform tablets and small objects in bronze, glass, ivory and other materials.
Many of these objects are now in the British Museum. But it is less well known that, prior to these excavations, Layard travelled widely in Iran, where he described a number of important monuments, mostly rock reliefs in the Bakhtiari Mountains.
Layard's family was of Huguenot descent, and his father had retired from the Ceylon civil service for health reasons.
Layard spent his childhood
