Assyrian discoveries (e-bok) av George Smith

In November 1873 English Assyriologist George Smith again left England for Nineveh for a second expedition, this time at the expense of the Museum, and continued his excavations at the tell of Kouyunjik (Nineveh). An account of his work is given in Assyrian Discoveries book, published early in 1875. The rest of the year was spent in fixingtogether and translating the fragments relating to the creation, the results of which were publishedlater in The Chaldaean Account of Genesis(1880, co-written with Archibald Sayce)