Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon
Austen Layard
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Austen Henry Layard is best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace reliefs known, and in 1851 the library of Ashurbanipal. The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, named after Ashurbanipal, the last great king of the Assyrian Empire, is a collection of thousands of clay tablets and fragments containing texts of all kinds from the 7th century BC. Among its holdings was the famous Epic of Gilgamesh.
In this work, he describes his experiences upon his return to the region for a second expedition. - Summary by Soupy
Proof-listened by Elijah Fisher and TriciaG. (17 hr 52 min)
Chapters
Prefatory note & Preface | 5:28 | Read by Elijah Fisher |
Chapter 1 | 26:34 | Read by Evan F |
Chapter 2 | 19:40 | Read by Tyrel Sorensen |
Chapter 3 | 27:37 | Read by Tyrel Sorensen |
Chapter 4 | 45:29 | Read by Sim |
Chapter 5 part 1 | 46:42 | Read by Jane Bennett |
Chapter 5 part 2 | 33:10 | Read by Jane Bennett |
Chapter 6 | 50:12 | Read by Jane Bennett |
Chapter 7 | 26:09 | Read by Jane Bennett |
Chapter 8 | 27:58 | Read by ToddHW |
Chapter 9 | 33:08 | Read by Jane Bennett |
Chapter 10 | 31:14 | Read by Jane Bennett |
Chapter 11 part 1 | 24:37 | Read by Jane Bennett |
Chapter 11 part 2 | 37:35 | Read by Mary Ann Hadley |
Chapter 12 | 23:50 | Read by Tasha Hobbs Peterson |
Chapter 13 | 31:22 | Read by Michele Eaton |
Chapter 14 | 32:40 | Read by Florence |
Chapter 15 | 19:39 | Read by Zeprina-Jaz Ainsworth |
Chapter 16 | 35:36 | Read by Zeprina-Jaz Ainsworth |
Chapter 17 | 35:02 | Read by Zeprina-Jaz Ainsworth |
Chapter 18 | 30:20 | Read by Zeprina-Jaz Ainsworth |
Chapter 19 | 34:48 | Read by Zeprina-Jaz Ainsworth |
Chapter 20 | 33:48 | Read by Michele Eaton |
Chapter 20 (alternate reading) | 28:05 | Read by Zeprina-Jaz Ainsworth |
Chapter 21 | 37:58 | Read by Sarah Irene Rosenberg |
Chapter 22 part 1 | 30:24 | Read by Kristine Bekere |
Chapter 22 part 2 | 24:01 | Read by Kristine Bekere |
Chapter 23 | 29:56 | Read by ChadH94 |
Chapter 24 part 1 | 28:05 | Read by William Allan Jones |
Chapter 24 part 2 | 27:19 | Read by Peter Dann |
Chapter 25 part 1 | 30:20 | Read by Wilma Magastino |
Chapter 25 part 2 | 25:42 | Read by Wilma Magastino |
Chapter 26 part 1 | 39:30 | Read by Wilma Magastino |
Chapter 26 part 2 | 29:08 | Read by Wilma Magastino |
Chapter 26 part 3 | 23:48 | Read by Gini Pug |
Conclusion | 6:03 | Read by KevinS |
Reviews
Informative & Entertaining Historical Account
Sean O'Shannessy
In his first hand account of exploring the Middle East of the 1850s, while digging in the ruins of ancient Assyria & Babylon, Layard shares unparallelled insights into both eras and allows us to take a fresh perspective on the world we live in today. (Most of the readers were excellent although a couple were difficult to understand)