Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, credited to Austen Layard, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon by Austen Layard. Read in English by volunteer readers. Austen Henry Layard is best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace reliefs known, and in 1851 the library of Ashurbanipal. The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, named after Ashurbanipal, the last great king of the Assyrian Empire, is a collection of thousands of clay tablets and fragments containing texts of all kinds from the 7th century BC. Among its holdings was the famous Epic of Gilgamesh. In this work, he describes his experiences upon his return to the region for a second expedition. - Summary by Soupy

Recording facts

• Recording title: Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon
• Author credits: Austen Layard
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 36
• Listed recording duration: 17:52:57

Catalogue topics

• Babylon
• Middle East
• archaeology
• discoveries
• ruins
• scientific discoveries
• description and travel
• Nineveh

Opening tracks: first 24 of 36

1. 00 - Prefatory note & Preface — 5:28
2. 01 - Chapter 1 — 26:34
3. 02 - Chapter 2 — 19:40
4. 03 - Chapter 3 — 27:37
5. 04 - Chapter 4 — 45:29
6. 05 - Chapter 5 part 1 — 46:42
7. 06 - Chapter 5 part 2 — 33:10
8. 07 - Chapter 6 — 50:12
9. 08 - Chapter 7 — 26:09
10. 09 - Chapter 8 — 27:58
11. 10 - Chapter 9 — 33:08
12. 11 - Chapter 10 — 31:14
13. 12 - Chapter 11 part 1 — 24:37
14. 13 - Chapter 11 part 2 — 37:35
15. 14 - Chapter 12 — 23:50
16. 15 - Chapter 13 — 31:22
17. 16 - Chapter 14 — 32:40
18. 17 - Chapter 15 — 19:39
19. 18 - Chapter 16 — 35:36
20. 19 - Chapter 17 — 35:02
21. 20 - Chapter 18 — 30:20
22. 21 - Chapter 19 — 34:48
23. 22 - Chapter 20 — 33:48
24. 23 - Chapter 20 (alternate reading) — 28:05

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