Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon

About this film

LibriVox recording of Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon by Austen Layard. Read in English by volunteer readers. Austen Henry Layard 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. The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, named after Ashurbanipal, the last great king of the Assyrian Empire, is a collection of thousands of clay tablets and fragments containing texts of all kinds from the 7th century BC. Among its holdings was the famous Epic of Gilgamesh. In this work, he describes his experiences upon his return to the region for a second expedition. - Summary by Soupy For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit librivox.org . M4B Audiobook 00-17 (248.7MB) M4B Audiobook18-35 (241.6MB)

Directors & creators

Austen Layard

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;Babylon; Middle East; archaeology; discoveries; ruins; scientific discoveries; description and travel; Nineveh

View on archive.org ↗