Layard's visit, in 1840, to Syria, Asia Minor, Babylon and Assyria. Differences in the ruins described. Dangers in traveling through the area. Layard's visit to area made him desire to investigate the ...

Nineveh was a center of power, wealth, and culture. However, by the 13th century AD, it was abandoned and left to time. People believed it was just a story until its ruins were rediscovered in the ...