Inside Out Library · Explore

Nineveh and Babylon; a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, and 1851 (1867)

Layard, Austen Henry, Sir, 1817-1894 · London J. Murray · leaf 374

An illustration from Nineveh and Babylon; a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, and 1851, 1867, leaf 374
Glazed Coiiins from Babylonia, in the British Museum. From a curious relic in terracotta, discovered and sent tothis country by Mr. Loftus, we learnthe manner in which the dead wereplaced in these singular coffins. Itrepresents the corpse of a man in oneof the sarcophagi I have described.The body…

Excavations (Archaeology) -- Assyria · Assyria -- Description and travel · Nineveh (Extinct city) · Babylon (Extinct city)

Internet Archive · University of Toronto, Robarts Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from Nineveh and Babylon; a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, and 1851

More like this