====== Layard, Austen Henry ======

== Name ==
Layard, Austen Henry

== Dates ==
5 March 1817 - 5 July 1894

== Birthplace ==
Paris

== Specialization ==
Archaeology

== Major works ==
Nineveh and Its Remains, London 1849 Monuments of Nineveh 1-2, London 1849-1853 Inscriptions in the Cuneiform Character, London 1851 Nineveh and Babylon, London 1853

== Remarks ==
founder of Near Eastern archaeology Excavated at Nimrud and Nineveh, 1845, 1847, 1849-1850 Honorary Ph.D., Oxford University, 1848 Biography in: A.H. Layard, Early Adventures in Persia, Susiana and Babylonia (1887) C.J. Gadd, The Stones of Assyria (1936) G. Waterfield, Layard of Nineveh (1963) Layard Papers (Additional MSS.), Dept. of MSS., British Library