The Conquest of Assyria: Excavations in an Antique LandRoutledge, 3 jun 2014 - 408 páginas The Conquest of Assyria tells what must surely be one of the most romantic tales of archaeological endeavour. The great cities and ancient palaces of Mesopotamia had lain buried for over two millenia, and were all but forgotten, half remembered in the Hebrew Bible and Classical texts. This volume records the dramatic finds, the decipherment of the cuneiform system of writing and the rediscovery of a lost civilisation. |
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The first palace appears | 29 |
Austen Henry Layard | 34 |
The journey into the East | 40 |
Mesopotamia the first impression | 45 |
Indiana Jones among the Bakhtiyaris | 52 |
45 | 198 |
An encounter on Nimrud | 206 |
Rawlinson in paradise | 215 |
Palaces and treasures | 228 |
Guests | 236 |
Pastoral | 244 |
Disasters and new discoveries | 255 |
Summer in the palace | 266 |
Mosul and Constantinople | 61 |
Nimrud | 71 |
The ideal English soldier | 79 |
The return of Nimrod | 97 |
But is it art? | 99 |
Cholera and smallmindedness | 108 |
Monuments and inscriptions | 115 |
Packing bulls and other luggage | 131 |
Triumph and revolution | 137 |
THE EXCAVATION OF SENNACHERIBS PALACE | 143 |
Home again | 145 |
40 | 150 |
Depths of time | 157 |
Eusebius or Moses? | 166 |
The mysteries of cuneiform | 177 |
Back to Constantinople | 189 |
Mosul revisited | 196 |
Babylonia | 275 |
Goodbye to Assyria | 286 |
VICTOR PLACE AND HORMUZD RASSAM | 291 |
Rawlinson gets it right | 293 |
New men new excavations | 306 |
Jealousy and illfeeling | 317 |
War | 333 |
Shipwreck | 344 |
Fates | 350 |
Notes | 364 |
61 | 365 |
88 | 366 |
NJ R R 28123 | 367 |
Bibliography | 372 |
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Otras ediciones - Ver todo
The Conquest of Assyria: Excavations in an Antique Land Mogens Trolle Larsen Vista previa restringida - 2014 |
The Conquest of Assyria: Excavations in an Antique Land, 1840-1860 Mogens Trolle Larsen Vista previa restringida - 1996 |
The Conquest of Assyria: Excavations in an Antique Land, 1840-1860 Mogens Trolle Larsen No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 1996 |
Términos y frases comunes
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