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Quotes from Nineveh and Babylon by Sir Austen Henry Layard — Austen Henry Layard

1817–1894 England

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Who would have believed it probable or possible, before these discoveries were made, that beneath the heap of earth and rubbish which marked the site of Nineveh, there would be found the history of the wars between Hezekiah and Sennacherib, written at the very time when they took place by Sennacherib himself, and confirming even in minute details the Biblical record?

Nineveh and Babylon by Sir Austen Henry Layard (1882)

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