Austen Henry Layard
190This Ain't Your Mom's Traditional Greek/Roman Classical Education
22 Apr 2024
5:05¶ 19
“As for Assyria, there was this young guy named Austen Henry Layard. This was the height of the Victorian period where Britain ruled the…”
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“They never made it. We don’t really know what happened to his friend, but they parted company in Mesopotamia because they each had things…”
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“Layard went out and kind of kicked around in it and began to get really suspicious and eventually arranged for some digging to be…”
136The Lost Empire
19 Sep 2022
39:07¶ 139
“And then one young man, a dilettante on his way to the far east at the height of the British empire to look for…”
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“He then eventually hires native diggers and they start uncovering huge statues, winged lions with the heads of kings and so on. He discovered…”
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“Yeah, it’s the biography of Austen Henry Layard written by Arnold C. Brackman, The Luck of Nineveh: In Search of the Lost Assyrian Empire.…”
21Angels Unawares
24 May 2020
1:04¶ 4
“Austen Henry Layard “accidentally discovered” the ruins of Nineveh in 1845 when he was only twenty-eight. His excavations created, and pretty much filled up,…”
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“For example, as he describes his first visit to the Rose-Red City of Petra, he writes, “I was determined to undertake the journey alone,…”
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“For example, when he and his party were attacked and robbed by Bedouin raiders, Layard grabbed hold of the Bedouin chieftain, put a rifle…”