Sir Austen Henry Layard - Author

Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817-1894) was at times a politician, art historian, a diplomat and a collector. Prominent as a traveller with expertise in ancient Assyria, his works on the ancient city of Nineveh, in modern day Mosul, Iraq is the subject of this Victorian publication. Once the largest city in the world, his excavations of Nineveh and its findings are documented across two volumes.