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Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, palaces, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1883)

Yaggy, Levi W, Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis), b. 1844 · Alexandria, Va., W.P. Grant & co. · leaf 448

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by the remains of the ancient structures.Mound Nimroud is about four miles in circumference at its base,,on the top of which is a great pyramid mound 777 feet in cir-cumference and 1445^ feet high. M. Botta distinctly traced the walls of an enclosure formingnearly a perfect square, two sides of… … ^28 NINEVEH AND BABYLON. 1842, and, meeting with little success, he abandoned his excava-tions in the following year. Layard, in 1846, opened some trenches in the southern faceof the mound, but, at that time, without any important results.At a subsequent period he made some inquiries respecting…

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