Mogens Trolle Larsen

The Conquest of Assyria

Excavations in an Antique Land

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Produktbeschreibung

The Conquest of Assyria records the dramatic finds, the decipherement of the cuneiform system of writing and the rediscovery of a lost civilisation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 172mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 730g
• ISBN-13: 9781138991620
• ISBN-10: 1138991627
• Artikelnr.: 44603704

Autorenporträt

Mogens Trolle Larsen

Inhaltsangabe

I: The First Explorers
1: The Mounds of Nineveh
2: Paolo Emilio Botta
3: The First Palace Appears
4: Austen Henry Layard
5: The Journey into the East
6: Mesopotamia - The First Impression
7: Indiana Jones Among the Bakhtiyaris
8: Mosul and Constantinople
9: Nimrud
10: The Ideal English Soldier
11: The Return of Nimrod
12: But is It Art?
13: Cholera and Small-Mindedness
14: Monuments and Inscriptions
15: Packing Bulls and other Luggage
16: Triumph and Revolution
II: The Excavation of Sennacherib's Palace
17: Home Again
18: Depths of Time
19: Eusebius or Moses?
20: The Mysteries of Cuneiform
21: Back to Constantinople
22: Mosul Revisited
23: An Encounter on Nimrud
24: Rawlinson in Paradise
25: Palaces and Treasures
26: Guests
27: Pastoral
28: Disasters and New Discoveries
29: Summer in the Palace
30: Babylonia
31: Goodbye to Assyria
III: Victor Place and Hormuzd Rassam
32: Rawlinson Gets It Right
33: New Men, New Excavations
34: Jealousy and Ill-Feeling
35: War
36: Shipwreck
37: Fates