Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon


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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

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Chapters

Prefatory note & Preface 5:28 Read by Elijah Fisher
Chapter 1 26:34 Read by Evan F
Chapter 2 19:40 Read by Tyrel Sorensen
Chapter 3 27:37 Read by Tyrel Sorensen
Chapter 4 45:29 Read by Sim
Chapter 5 part 1 46:42 Read by Jane Bennett
Chapter 5 part 2 33:10 Read by Jane Bennett
Chapter 6 50:12 Read by Jane Bennett
Chapter 7 26:09 Read by Jane Bennett
Chapter 8 27:58 Read by ToddHW
Chapter 9 33:08 Read by Jane Bennett
Chapter 10 31:14 Read by Jane Bennett
Chapter 11 part 1 24:37 Read by Jane Bennett
Chapter 11 part 2 37:35 Read by Mary Ann Hadley
Chapter 12 23:50 Read by Tasha Hobbs Peterson
Chapter 13 31:22 Read by Michele Eaton
Chapter 14 32:40 Read by Florence
Chapter 15 19:39 Read by Zeprina-Jaz Ainsworth
Chapter 16 35:36 Read by Zeprina-Jaz Ainsworth
Chapter 17 35:02 Read by Zeprina-Jaz Ainsworth
Chapter 18 30:20 Read by Zeprina-Jaz Ainsworth
Chapter 19 34:48 Read by Zeprina-Jaz Ainsworth
Chapter 20 33:48 Read by Michele Eaton
Chapter 20 (alternate reading) 28:05 Read by Zeprina-Jaz Ainsworth
Chapter 21 37:58 Read by Sarah Irene Rosenberg
Chapter 22 part 1 30:24 Read by Kristine Bekere
Chapter 22 part 2 24:01 Read by Kristine Bekere
Chapter 23 29:56 Read by ChadH94
Chapter 24 part 1 28:05 Read by William Allan Jones
Chapter 24 part 2 27:19 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 25 part 1 30:20 Read by Wilma Magastino
Chapter 25 part 2 25:42 Read by Wilma Magastino
Chapter 26 part 1 39:30 Read by Wilma Magastino
Chapter 26 part 2 29:08 Read by Wilma Magastino
Chapter 26 part 3 23:48 Read by Gini Pug
Conclusion 6:03 Read by KevinS