id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt hvd.hwaqiz Layard, Austen Henry, Sir Discoveries among the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon : with travels in Armenia, Kurdistan, and the desert ; being the result of a second expedition undertaken for the trustees of the British museum by Austen H. Layard 1853 .txt text/plain 153123 8974 75 State of the Excavations on my Return to Mosul.-Discoveries at Kouyunjik.--Tunnels in the Mound.-Bas-reliefs representing Assyrian Conquests.-A Well.Siege of a City.--Nature of Sculptures at Kouyunjik. Extent of the Ruins explored.-Bases of Pillars.--Small objects.-Roman Coins struck at Nineveh.—Hoard of Denarii.-Greek Relics.-Absence of Assyrian Tombs.-Fragment with Egyptian Characters.--Assyrian Relics. district hitherto inaccessible may possibly contain the remains of ancient races, monuments of antiquity, and natural productions of sufficient importance to merit the attention of the traveller in Asia Minor. The king standing in his chariot, beneath the royal parasol, followed by long lines of dismounted warriors leading richly caparisoned horses, and by foot soldiers variously armed and accoutred, is receiving the captives and evidence that captives from foreign countries were employed in the great public works undertaken by the Assyrian kings, as we were led to infer, from the variety of ./cache/hvd.hwaqiz.pdf ./txt/hvd.hwaqiz.txt