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The Discovery of the Ancient City of Nineveh

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Homer Abramian talking about Sir Henry Layard (insert), who discovered the Assyrian hidden cities in Northern Iraq in the late nineteenth Century.

This is an excerpt from a lecture by historian and writer Homer Abramian, exploring the discovery of the ancient city of Nineveh by Sir Austin Henry Layard and how it revealed the history and legacy of the Assyrian Empire to the world.


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This is an excerpt from a lecture by historian and writer Homer Abramian, exploring the discovery of the ancient city of Nineveh by Sir Austin Henry Layard and how it revealed the history and legacy of the Assyrian Empire to the world.



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