Layard dug up the Assyrian palaces, shipped the winged bulls to the British Museum, and found the library of Ashurbanipal — the tablets that would later yield the Flood story. The book is half archaeology and half travel: the tribes, the pashas, the desert journeys and the daily politics of a dig in Ottoman Mesopotamia.
The excavations that gave the world Assyria, by the man with the spade. Download the free EPUB.