Austen Henry Layard
Sir Austen Henry Layard was an English Assyriologist, traveller, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, politician and diplomat. He was born to a mostly English family in Paris and largely raised in Italy. He is best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace reliefs known, and in 1851 the library of Ashurbanipal.
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- 🏆 Royal Gold Medal🏆 Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath🏆 Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order🏆 Founder’s Medal
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1817
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