Sir Austen Henry Layard GCB PC (/lɛərd/; 5 March 1817 – 5 July 1894) was an English Assyriologist, traveller, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman...

Nimrud lens, also called Layard lens, is an 8th-century BC piece of rock crystal which was unearthed in 1850 by Austen Henry Layard at the Assyrian palace...

beliefs described in the * Etudes sur la religion ' des Soubbas. ..." Layard, Austen Henry, Sir (1887). Early adventures in Persia, Susiana, and Babylonia,...

or "Delicate Temptation". In the 1840s, the British archaeologist Austen Henry Layard uncovered numerous stone carvings of winged, eagle-headed genii at...

It is particularly noteworthy for having been the residence of Austen Henry Layard, discoverer of Nineveh. Located on the confluence of three canals...

fragile to remove. In 1847 the young British diplomat Austen Henry Layard explored the ruins. Layard did not use modern archaeological methods; his stated...

28-year-old Austen Henry Layard during excavations in 1845–1847. Commenting on the inscription above the seated figure of Sennacherib, Layard wrote: Here...

with the Assyrian Empire. Tarbiṣu was excavated by Austen Henry Layard in 1850, and then Sir Henry Rawlinson under the auspices of the British Museum...

illustrated and exemplary monograph in 4 volumes by Botta and Flandin. Austen Henry Layard (1817–1894) was in the early 1840s "a roving agent attached to the...

Layard is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Austen Henry Layard (1817–1894), British archaeologist, author, and politician Charles Peter...

near eastern cosmology. It was recovered by English archaeologist Austen Henry Layard in 1849 (in fragmentary form) in the ruined Library of Ashurbanipal...

site of Kalhu (now known as Nimrud) by the famous archaeologist Austen Henry Layard. Dating from 883–859 BC, the statue has long been admired for its...

in the pursuit of various explorations, including visits with Sir Austen Henry Layard to the ruins of Nineveh, he returned to England on leave of absence...

1843 - Paul-Émile Botta Ninevah - 1845 - Austen Henry Layard Dur-Sharrukin (Knorsabad) - 1847 - Austen Henry Layard found Sennacherib's palace, and the library...

back from the site of Nimrud in northern Mesopotamia (Iraq) by Sir Austen Henry Layard along with other antiquities which were displayed at Canford before...

archaeologist Austen Henry Layard. Dated to between 883-859 BC, the sculpture is now part of the British Museum's collection. This stela was found by Layard in 1850...

apparently participated on the other side. A tablet unearthed in 1854 by Austen Henry Layard in Nineveh reveals Ashurbanipal as an "avenger", seeking retribution...

the Kassite period. Nippur was first excavated, briefly, by Sir Austen Henry Layard in 1851. Full-scale digging was begun by an expedition from the University...

was chosen as patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church in 1830. Austen Henry Layard, who visited the area in 1847, reported that by "a very ancient tradition"...

of a hall in an Assyrian palace from The Monuments of Nineveh by Austen Henry Layard, 1853 A Neo-Assyrian relief of Ashur as a feather robed archer holding...

thunderbolts pursues Anzû stealing the Tablet of Destinies from Enlil's sanctuary (Austen Henry Layard Monuments of Nineveh, 2nd Series, 1853) Parents Siris...

from Ashteroth in 730–727 BC. The relief was excavated at Nimrud by Austen Henry Layard in 1851. The name Ashteroth is inscribed in cuneiform on the top...

central square of Nimrud. It was discovered by archaeologist Sir Austen Henry Layard in 1846 and is now in the British Museum. It features twenty relief...

peoples. The first bowls published widely had been discovered by Austen Henry Layard in 1849 in the palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud. The discovery...

Illustration of a hall in the Assyrian Palace of Ashurnasrirpal II by Austen Henry Layard (1854) Sargon II and dignitary. Low-relief from the L wall of the...

of Mosul. The library is an archaeological discovery credited to Austen Henry Layard; most tablets were taken to England and can now be found in the British...

1849 AD by the English archaeologist Austen Henry Layard in the Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh.: 95  Layard was seeking evidence to confirm the historicity...

he and his party were attacked and killed. In the late 1840s Sir Austen Henry Layard examined and described the Urartian rock-cut tombs of Van Castle...

tablets that had been unearthed near Mosul in present-day Iraq by Austen Henry Layard, Henry Rawlinson, and Hormuzd Rassam, during the archaeological expeditions...

discovered and excavated from 1847 to 1851 by the British archaeologist Austen Henry Layard, the discovery of reliefs depicting Sennacherib's siege of Lachish...