Skip to main content News and Interpretations on the Bible and Ancient Near East History. Search Search Search Contact Us – Mark Elliot Main Menu Biblical Archaeology and Its Interpretation: The Sayce-Driver Controversy By Mark Elliott Bible and Interpretation March 2003 In the beginning of the twentieth century, there was a triumphal feeling among many conservative […]
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Nineteenth century ARCHEOLOGISTS – Austen Henry Layard’s (1817–1894)
‘Nineveh, the great city “of three days’ journey,” that was “laid waste and there was none to bemoan her,” whose greatness sank when that of Rome had just begun to rise, now stands forth again to testify to her own splendour, and to the civilization and power and magnificence of the Assyrian Empire.’ (Layard, 1854, […]