Austen Henry Layard
1817-1894
English archaeologist who unearthed the ruins of ancient Assyrian cities from beneath ancient mounds in what is now Iraq. There he discovered alabaster palaces, gigantic ...
Read more
Austen Henry Layard was perhaps the leading British archaeologist of the nineteenth century. His excavations at Calah (Nimrud) and elsewhere provided crucial evidence of both the antiquity and the cul...
Read more