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Travels and researches in Chaldaea and Susiana, with an account of excavations at Warka, the ‘Erech' of Nimrod, and Shúsh, ‘Shushan the Palace' of Esther, in 1849-52, William Kennett Loftus

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Travels and researches in Chaldaea and Susiana, with an account of excavations at Warka, the ‘Erech' of Nimrod, and Shúsh, ‘Shushan the Palace' of Esther, in 1849-52, William Kennett Loftus

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eng

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Travels and researches in Chaldaea and Susiana

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electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

910964617

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William Kennett Loftus

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Cambridge library collectionCambridge Social Sciences eBooks

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with an account of excavations at Warka, the ‘Erech' of Nimrod, and Shúsh, ‘Shushan the Palace' of Esther, in 1849-52

Summary

This book contains two works by William Kennett Loftus (1821–58) in which he describes his archaeological surveying and excavations in Mesopotamia between 1849 and 1855. An enthusiastic antiquarian and geologist, Loftus was appointed to the staff of the Turco-Persian Frontier Commission. On his travels, he located many ruins later identified as biblical cities, including Warkah (Uruk) and Tell el-Muqayyar (Ur). In 1854 Loftus was enabled by the newly formed Assyrian Excavation Fund to return to Warkah, and he excavated over a three-month period, discovering artefacts and cuneiform tablets which he sent to the British Museum. His Travels and Researches, describing his work in Mesopotamia up to 1852, was published in 1857, and his short account of his later work at Warkah in 1859, after his early death. These texts remain a record of the first discoveries in a region significant for its biblical history, but previously hardly visited by Europeans.--, Provided by publisher

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