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Book Chapter
The Archaeological Exploration of Assyria
2017
Overview
Claudius Rich's work and his collection of objects, a collection that ended up in the British Museum, came to play a major role for the pioneers who initiated Assyria's archaeological exploration. Jules Mohl managed to persuade the authorities to create the position of a French consul in Mosul, and a young man called Paul Émile Botta was appointed in 1841. Part of his task was to start excavations at Nineveh, in particular on the huge mound known as Kuyunjik, and Mohl had secured funds specifically for this purpose. Austen Henry Layard first turned his attention to Kuyunjik, where, having better luck than Botta, he had made some significant discoveries during his earlier expedition; most importantly, he had found there a vast palace built by Sennacherib around 700 BCE. One of Layard's most important achievements at Kuyunjik was the discovery of a large room filled with mostly fragmentary clay tablets covered with cuneiform writing.
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Subject
ISBN
9781444335934, 1444335936
