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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... PREFACE. In submitting to my readers the following account of my travels in Biblical lands, and of my Assyrian and Babylonian discoveries, I do so with diffidence, feeling that it is an unworthy sequel to the fascinating and interesting narratives of my late lamented friend, Sir Austen Henry Layard, which are of wide-world reputation. I am emboldened, however, by the fact that it was his fond desire that I should lay before the world the record of my humble contribution to that branch of learning in connection with ancient history, both sacred and profaue. With the exception of a few lectures I delivered before different societies, and a slight mention made of them by Sir Henry in his abridged work, entitled "Nineveh and Babylon," published in 1867 by Mr. John Murray, no full account has yet appeared of my different discoveries, though the Illustrated London News produced, in May, 1856, a few specimens of the basreliefs found by me in Assur-bani-pal's palace, with a generous tribute to my success. Beyond these notices, no record has appeared anywhere of the share I have had in Assyrian and Babylonian discoveries; the consequence was, that not many years afterwards some of my acquisitions were attributed to others, and, actually, the Assyrian legends of the Creation and Deluge tablets, which I found in Nineveh, in Assur-bani-pal's palace, in 1853, were credited to Mr. George Smith's exploration, which he undertook for the proprietors of the Daily Telegraph twenty years afterwards, because, forsooth, he was the first Assyrian scholar who had deciphered them! Even in the present ninth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, in which historical records ought to be strictly correct, the following appears in a note in Vol. XVII, page 512,...
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Narrative of the British Mission to Theodore, King of A byssinia: With Notices of the Countries Traversed from Massowah, Through the the and Back to A nnesley Bay, from was written by Hormuzd Rassam in 1869. This is a 371 page book, containing 122157 words and 3pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org
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Diplomat traveller assyriologist
Hormuzd Rassam was born in 1826 in Mosul in Upper Mesopotamia (now modern northern Iraq), then part of the Ottoman Empire. His parents were Christians, members of the Chaldean Catholic Church. His father, Anton Rassam, was from Mosul, and was archdeacon in the Assyrian Church of the East; his mother Theresa was a daughter of Isaak Halabee of Aleppo, also then within the Ottoman Empire.
He studied at Oxford.
His first work was done as assistant to Sir A. H. Layard in his first expedition (1845 - 47). He subsequently came to England and was again sent by the British Museum trustees to accompany Layard in his second expedition (1849 - 51). Layard having entered upon a political career, Rassam continued the work (1852 - 54) in Assyria under the direction of the British Museum and Sir Henry Rawlinson at Nimrud and Kuyunjik. In 1866 he was sent by the British government to Abyssinia, where, however, he was imprisoned for two years until freed by the victory of Sir Robert Napier. From 1876 to 1882 he was again in Assyria conducting important investigations, especially at Nineveh, and during the Russo-Turkish War he was sent on a mission of inquiry to report on the condition of the Christian communities of Asia Minor arid Armenia. His archaeological work resulted in many important discoveries and the collection of valuable epigraphical evidence.
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Rassam married Anne Eliza Price, an Englishwoman. They had seven children together. His eldest daughter, Theresa Rassam, born in 1871, became a professional singer who performed with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.
