Antiquities - an alabaster section, inscribed Fragment of Assyrian ** Given to William Howard by Sir Henry Austen Layard at Nineveh 1850, Later Presented to British Museum, Period 2000BC, 4.5cm x 7.5cm As an Archeologist, Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817 - 1894) is best known for his excavations at Nimrud and Nineveh where he discovered a great number of Assyrian palace reliefs, publishing Nineveh and Its Remains in 1848, followed by The Monuments of Nineveh. From Drawings Made on the Spot in 1849. In 1851 he uncovered the Royal Library of Ashurbanipal.
Antiquities - an alabaster section, inscribed Fragment of Assyrian ** Given to William Howard by Sir Henry Austen Layard at Nineveh 1850, Later Presented to British Museum, Period 2000BC, 4.5cm x 7.5cm As an Archeologist, Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817 - 1894) is best known for his excavations at Nimrud and Nineveh where he discovered a great number of Assyrian palace reliefs, publishing Nineveh and Its Remains in 1848, followed by The Monuments of Nineveh. From Drawings Made on the Spot in 1849. In 1851 he uncovered the Royal Library of Ashurbanipal.
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