The Library at Nineveh
In Our Time: Culture
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The Man Who, as You Were Good Morning Andrew, Has Arrived
austin henry layard was a young man who wanted to work in his uncle's office. But he became fascinated by the wild edges of the ottoman empire and persian empire. He attached himself to sir stratford canning, who was then am the ambassador to the ottomon empire. Am an suaded canning to fund him to start to explore these ancient ruine mounds around what's now northern irac near modern city of mosel. And then he and canning managed to persuade the british museum to start funding their digs too. It is all in that 18 forty, a man with no experience of archaeology could get a shovel, hire
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