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#ArtnetNews: In 1845, an Englishman named Austen Henry Layard set out from Constantinople in search of Nineveh, the last capital of the Assyrian Empire. He was 28 years old, held no formal training in archaeology, and, having failed to convince the British Museum of the expedition’s merits, was short of funds.
This would soon change. Four years later, when Layard published a richly illustrated account of his work in Nineveh, he stirred the Victorian public’s imagination with his depictions of the biblical city which led to nearly a century of well-funded excavations—hence the British Museum’s peerless collection of artifacts from the city.
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Article by Richard Whiddington
Pictured: The Palaces of Nimrud as drawn by Austen Henry Layard. Photo: Historica Graphica Collection/Getty Images.
Heidelberg Nineveh Project began in 2018. Photo: courtesy Aaron Schmitt.
A fragment of the relief discovered in Nineveh. Photo: courtesy Aaron Schmitt.
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