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	Austen Henry Layard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His father, Henry PJ Layard, of the Ceylon Civil Service, was the son of Charles Peter Layard, dean of Bristol, and grandson of Daniel Peter Layard, the physician.
		His uncle was Benjamin Austen, a London solicitor and close friend of Benjamin Disraeli in the 1820s and 1830s.
		Layard retired to Venice, where he devoted much of his time to collecting pictures of the Venetian school, and to writing on Italian art.
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	Layard, Austen Henry - OnlineEncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sir Austen Henry Layard (5 March 1817–5 July 1894) was a British author and diplomatist, best known as the excavator of Nineveh.
		After spending nearly six years in the office of his uncle, Benjamin Austen, a solicitor, he was tempted to leave England for Ceylon by the prospect of obtaining an appointment in the civil service, and he started in 1839 with the intention of making an overland journey across Asia.
		After spending a few months in England, and receiving the degree of D.C.L. from Oxford University, Layard returned to Constantinople as attaché to the British embassy, and, in August 1849, started on a second expedition, in the course of which he extended his investigations to the ruins of Babylon and the mounds of southern Mesopotamia.
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	Sir Austen Henry Layard
		Sir Austen Henry Layard was one of the leading British archaeologists of the nineteenth century.
		Layard’s speculations on word meanings and phonology were often inaccurate, but many of his theoretical assumptions tailed with the course later taken by scholarship on the subject.
		Layard’s writings are described as travel writings because of the interrelation of past and present and the investigative direction of the narrative, which dominates the features of his writings about his expeditions and discoveries of the Nineveh.
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		His father, Henry P. Layard, of the Ceylon Civil Service, was the son of Charles Peter Layard, dean of Bristol, and grandson of Daniel Peter Layard, the physician.
		Much of his boyhood was spent in Italy, where he received part of his schooling, and acquired a taste for the fine arts and a love of travel; but he was at school also in England, France and Sw-itzerland.
		Layard remained in the neighborhood of Mosul, carrying on excavations at Kuyunjik and Nimrud, and investigating the condition of various tribes, until 1847; and, returning to England in 1848, published Nineveh and its Remains:
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	Sir Austen Henry Layard -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		As British foreign secretary from 1924 to 1929, Austen Chamberlain helped negotiate the Locarno Pact, a group of treaties intended to secure peace in western Europe by guaranteeing the boundaries of the pact's seven signatory nations, providing for their collective security, and paving the way for the entry of Germany into the League of Nations.
		At 15 she was writing plays and sketches for the amusement of her family, and by the time she was 21 she had begun to write novels that are among the finest in English literature.
		Sir Isaac Newton law of gravity helped prove that the sun was the center of the universe.
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		Much of his boyhood was spent in Italy, where he received part of his schooling, and acquired a taste for the fine arts and a love of travel; but he was at school also in England,
		This expedition was in fulfilment of a design which he had formed, when, during his former travels in the East, his curiosity had been greatly excited by the ruins of Nimrud on the Tigris, and by the great mound of Kuyunjik, near
		university of Oxford, Layard returned to Constantinople as attaché to the British embassy, and, in August 1849, started on a second expedition, in the course of which he extended his investigations to the ruins of Babylon and the mounds of southern
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		Layard, Sir Austen Henry (1817-1894), English lawyer and archaeologist who uncovered the palaces of Assyrian kings at Nimrud and Nineveh and who,...
		Godwin-Austen, Henry Haversham (1834-1923), British soldier and topographer, born in Teignmouth, England, and educated at the Royal Military...
		Chamberlain, Sir (Joseph) Austen (1863-1937), British statesman, best known for his work in the League of Nations.
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	LAYARD, SIR AUSTEN HENRY (1817-1894) - Encyclopedia Britannica - LAYARD, SIR AUSTEN HENRY (1817-1894) - JCSM's Study ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		LAYARD, SIR AUSTEN HENRY (1817-1894), British author and diplomatist, the excavator of Nineveh, was born in Paris on the 5th of March 1817.
		This expedition was in fulfilment of a design which he had formed, when, during his former travels in the East, his curiosity had been greatly excited by the ruins of Nimrud on the Tigris, and by the great mound of Kuyunjik, near Mosul, already partly excavated by Hotta.
		Elected as a Liberal member for Aylesbury in 1852, he was for a few weeks under-secretary for foreign affairs, but afterwards freely criticized the government, especially in connexion with army administration.
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		Layard was born in Paris, France on March 5, 1817.He was the son of Marianne Austen and Peter John Layard, who were wed in England 1814.Layard grew up in Florence Italy among the artistic treasures of the city in a time when artists and intellectuals were exploring the central value in European culture.
		After remaining a night in Mosul to explore the mounds of Nineveh, Layard and Mitford left for Baghdad and stayed at Hammam Ali, there were Layard first sighted Nimrud.
		After a two months stay in Baghdad, Mitford parted for the east, while Layard obtained consent to explore the territory of the Bakhtiyari tribe in Luristan.From August 1840 thru July 1841, Layard encountered the Bakhtiyari tribe.
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		Sir Austen Henry Layard (5 March, 1817 – 5 July, 1894) was a British author and diplomatist, best known as the excavator of Nineveh.
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		Layard was certainly one of the leading British archaeologists of the nineteenth century.
		In 1845 Layard discovered cuneiform inscriptions and Assyrian documents which he thought were remains of Nineveh.
		Layard wrote a number of books about his discoveries that opened the eyes of the public to ancient civilizations.
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		Layard remained in the neighbourhood of Mosul, carrying on excavations at Kuyunjik and Nimrud, and investigating the See also:
		Layard also from time to time contributed papers to various learned See also:
		The president of each house has the discretionary power of appointing additional laymen, not exceeding ten in number.
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		While the Biblical authors mention the area of Assyria in their accounts, it was not until the 1800s that other evidence became available from this great civilisation.
		Excavations in the "land of Assur", particularly by Sir Austen Henry Layard in the 1840s, captured the imagination of the Europeans.
		Nineveh was destroyed by the Medes and Babylonians in 612 BC, and the palace was pillaged and burned, and lay buried until Layard excavated it between 1847 and 1851.
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	Sir Austen Henry Layard -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		English archaeologist whose excavations greatly increased knowledge of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.
		Spending much time in the vicinity of Mosul, Ottoman Mesopotamia (now in Iraq), Layard became increasingly interested in locating and unearthing the great cities of biblical renown.
		During his later career in government and diplomacy, Layard served in Parliament (1852–57 and 1860–69), became under secretary of foreign affairs (1861–66), and was appointed chief commissioner of works and privy councillor (1868) and ambassador at Istanbul (1877–80).
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		Sir Austen Henry Layard[lA´urd] Pronunciation Key, 1817–94, English archaeologist and diplomat.
		Between 1842 and 1851 he explored and excavated in Mesopotamia, especially at Nineveh.
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		She is researching the collecting of Renaissance art in the 19th century by analyzing nearly three decades of correspondence between Sir Austen Henry Layard and Giovanni Morelli.
		Layard, from Britain, was one of the 19th century's leading archaeologists and is best known for his discoveries at the ruins of Nineveh, now part of Mosul in modern Iraq.
		He met Giovanni Morelli - who made significant contributions to the analysis and protection of art - during the 1860s when both were searching for sales of Italian art collections.
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