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Author Name: Brackman, Arnold C.
Title: The Luck of Nineveh ; In Search of the Lost Assyrian Empire
Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Very Good
Type: Paperback
Edition: First - First Thus; First Printi
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold 1981
ISBN Number: 0442282605 / 9780442282608
Seller ID: 1196
Book has light edge wear, rubbing, bumping . to corners, soiling to edges; no Internal flaws.. . Photographs; Unravels the story of the discovery of Ninevah in spellbinding detail: how Layard, an eccentric Englishman fascinated by the Near East, set out single-handedly to uncover the fabled Biblical civilization of the Tigris-Euphrates Valley. It tells how Layard selected a mound -- in a site that had been unsuccessfully probed for a decade -- put his shovel to the earth, and in twenty minutes hit a wall. Within twenty-four hours he had discovered not one but two palaces. The news of Ninevah's discovery electrified Europe, and overnight Layard became a celebrity. .
n|y|Archaeology; Ninevah; Ancient Cities|Archaeology
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