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| | Paul-Emile Botta |
 | | After he had cabled news of his discovery - "Niniveh est retrouvé" to Paris, the French government financed his excavations there. |
 | | The artist Eugène Flandin was sent to Mesopotamia to document Botta's discoveries – fortunately, as it turned out. |
 | | In 1855, Victor Place, Botta's successor tried to send finds from Kish, Khorsabad, Nimrud and from Assurbanipal's palace in Niniveh, 235 cases all in all, from Mosul down the Tigris and the Shatt-al-Arab to Basra, where they were to be loaded on a ship bound to Paris. |
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