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The Assyriologist George Smith (1840-76) was trained originally as an engraver, but was enthralled by the discoveries of Layard and Rawlinson. He taught himself cuneiform script, and joined the British Museum as a 'repairer' or matcher of broken cuneiform tablets. Promotion followed, and after one of Smith's most significant discoveries among the material sent to the Museum - a Babylonian story of a great flood - he was sent to the Middle East, where he found more inscriptions which contained other parts of the epic tale of Gilgamesh. In this 1875 work, a bestseller in its day, Smith describes his expedition, the difficulties encountered, and the discoveries, including hundreds of inscriptions which increased knowledge of the Babylonian and Assyrian civilisations but also had a profound effect on traditional biblical studies. Smith died in Aleppo in 1876, having revolutionised understanding of the ancient Near East.

Nineveh (Extinct city) --- Nineveh (Ancient city) --- Ninos (Extinct city) --- Ninus (Extinct city) --- Iraq --- Antiquities

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There is to date no comprehensive treatment of eye disease texts from ancient Mesopotamia, and no English translation of this material is available. This volume is the first complete edition and commentary on Mesopotamian medicine from Nineveh dealing with diseases of the eye. This ancient work, languishing in British Museum archives since the 19th century, is preserved on several large cuneiform manuscripts from the royal library of Ashurbanipal, from the 7th century BC. The longest surviving ancient work on diseased eyes, the text predates by several centuries corresponding Hippocratic treatises. The Nineveh series represents a systematic array of eye symptoms and therapies, also showing commonalities with Egyptian and Greco-Roman medicine. Since scholars of Near Eastern civilizations and ancient and general historians of medicine will need to be familiar with this material, the volume makes this aspect of Babylonian medicine fully accessible to both specialists and non-specialists, with all texts being fully translated into English.

RELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament. --- Cuneiform medicine. --- Mesopotamian therapy. --- eye disease. --- opthalmology. --- ophthalmology. --- Iraq --- Nineveh/Ninos. --- Mesopotamia (region) --- Middle East --- Nineveh --- Ninos (Extinct city) --- Ninus (Extinct city)

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This publication released to a wider audience the work on Assyrian inscriptions of Sir Henry Rawlinson (1810-95), who had begun his career in the East India Company in Persia and Afghanistan, where his exceptional linguistic skills were recognised. He had been studying the monumental, trilingual (in Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian) Behistun inscription of Darius the Great since 1836, and, building on the earlier research of Georg Friedrich Grotefend, delivered a summary of his progress in decipherment to the Royal Asiatic Society early in 1850. He intended to follow it up with a longer book, but was anxious to gain credit for primacy (which was questioned at the time and still remains controversial), and so published this short work in March 1850. It states Rawlinson's theories, and offers a linguistic and archaeological background to his work, along with his interpretation of king lists and other inscriptions.

Cuneiform writing. --- Akkadian language --- Cuneiform inscriptions. --- Kings and rulers, Ancient. --- Texts. --- Nineveh (Extinct city) --- Babylon (Extinct city) --- Ancient kings and rulers --- Inscriptions, Cuneiform --- Assyro-Babylonian literature --- Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian --- Achaemenian inscriptions --- Cuneiform writing --- Old Persian inscriptions --- Alphabet --- Inscriptions --- Paleography --- Writing --- Cuneiform inscriptions --- Babylon (Ancient city) --- Iraq --- Nineveh (Ancient city) --- Ninos (Extinct city) --- Ninus (Extinct city) --- Antiquities

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Before abandoning archaeology for politics, Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817-94) carried out major excavations in Mesopotamia between 1845 and 1851, uncovering important evidence of ancient Assyrian civilisation. Although he originally believed that Nimrud was Nineveh, he later confirmed that Kuyunjik was the location of the ancient city. First published in 1849, this two-volume work is a mixture of excavation report, ancient history, anthropology and travel writing. Layard's excitement at the extent and importance of the finds as soon as digging commenced is clearly conveyed, and he places Mesopotamian history in the context of the more familiar biblical and classical worlds. His Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon (1853) is also reissued in this series. Illustrated with reproductions of monumental sculptures, smaller finds and excavation plans, Volume 2 follows the progress of digs at a number of sites. The volume's latter part covers the history, culture and customs of the ancient Assyrians.

Assyrian Church of the East members. --- Yezidis. --- Assyrian Church of the East --- Catholic Church --- History. --- Chaldean rite --- Nineveh (Extinct city) --- Assyria --- Jezides --- Yazidis --- Religious adherents --- Nestorians --- Syriac Christians --- Apostolic and Catholic Assyrian Church of the East --- Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East --- Assyrian Orthodox Church --- Nestorian Church --- بطريرك كنيسة المشرق الآشورية في العالم --- Baṭriyark Kanīsat al-Mashriq al-Ashūrīyah fī al-ʻĀlam --- ʻIdtā Qadíštā w-Šlíḥaytā Qatúlíqí d-Madnḥā d-ʾAtorāye --- Church of the East --- Ancient Church of the East --- Nineveh (Ancient city) --- Ninos (Extinct city) --- Ninus (Extinct city) --- Iraq --- Antiquities --- Church of Rome --- Roman Catholic Church --- Katholische Kirche --- Katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva --- Römisch-Katholische Kirche --- Römische Kirche --- Ecclesia Catholica --- Eglise catholique --- Eglise catholique-romaine --- Katolicheskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- Chiesa cattolica --- Iglesia Católica --- Kościół Katolicki --- Katolicki Kościół --- Kościół Rzymskokatolicki --- Nihon Katorikku Kyōkai --- Katholikē Ekklēsia --- Gereja Katolik --- Kenesiyah ha-Ḳatolit --- Kanisa Katoliki --- כנסיה הקתולית --- כנסייה הקתולית --- 가톨릭교 --- 천주교