Early Adventures in Persia, Susiana, and Babylonia: Including a Residence Among the Bakhtiyari and Other Wild Tribes Before the Discovery of Nineveh (Cambridge Library Collection - Archaeology) (Paperback)
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Full description- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 29 December 2011
- Format: Paperback 534 pages
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- Categories: Anthologies (non-poetry) | Geographical Discovery & Exploration | Archaeology | Archaeology By Period / Region
- ISBN 13: 9781108043434 ISBN 10: 1108043437
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Full description for Early Adventures in Persia, Susiana, and Babylonia
Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817-94) was one of the leading British archaeologists of the Victorian period. His excavations at Nimrud and Nineveh led to important discoveries about ancient Mesopotamia, particularly about the Assyrian civilisation, and his popular books such as Nineveh and its Remains (1849) brought archaeology to a wide audience. This book, first published in 1887, tells the story of an 'adventurous journey' Layard had made over forty years earlier, in 1840-2. He learnt Arabic and Persian and travelled widely, even among tribal peoples notorious for their lawlessness. Volume 2 opens with Layard's account of attacks by the Persian military against his hosts, the mountain-dwelling Bakhtiyari tribe. It describes Layard's return journey through Basra and Baghdad to Constantinople, against a backdrop of civil unrest, feuds, kidnapping, theft and robbery, alternating with generous assistance. The book ends with Layard, undeterred by his experiences, planning his next archaeological excavations.
