caa a22 4500 388055413 CHVBK 20180307125104.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199812 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0003598X00087573 doi S0003598X00087573 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0003598X00087573 Reade Julian Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities, British Museum, London WC1B 3DG, England Layard's Nineveh and its remains [Elektronische Daten] [Julian Reade] When in the 18th century European travellers passed through the obscure Ottoman provinces of Mosul and Baghdad, in what is now Iraq, they sometimes paused to contemplate the wreckage of Nineveh and Babylon. We know today that every Mesopotamian mound is an accumulation of history, but at the time it was far from obvious that significant relics of ancient civilizations, known on Biblical authority to have existed but at the same time condemned and destroyed by Divine justice, might still survive beneath the surface of the ground. In 1820 Claudius James Rich, British Resident in Baghdad, investigated Nineveh and heard of sculptures that had been found among the ruins, but it was 1836 before his widow published an account of his visit. That book was the catalyst for a phase of frantic exploration, between 1843 and 1855, which led ultimately to the discovery both of ancient Assyria and of an entire civilization, that of ancient Mesopotamia, which stretched back past Babylonians and Sumerians to the very evolution of writing and the dawn of history. The discoveries were more than academic. In 1848. when the first results began to be known in Great Britain, they helped undermine some of the fundamental assumptions of established society. Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1998 Layard nationallicence Nineveh nationallicence history nationallicence Antiquity Cambridge University Press 72/278(1998-12), 913-916 0003-598X 72:278<913 1998 72 AQY https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00087573 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00087573 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Reade Julian Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities, British Museum, London WC1B 3DG, England NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Antiquity Cambridge University Press 72/278(1998-12), 913-916 0003-598X 72:278<913 1998 72 AQY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge