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Austen Henry Layard (1817–1894)
Layard, Sir Austen Henry. An English traveler; born at Paris, March 5, 1817; died on July 5, 1894. He discovered in 1840 at Nimrud, a village near the junction of the Tigris with the Zab, the site of Nineveh. The results of his explorations he published in ‘Nineveh and its Remains’ (2 vols., 1848), and ‘Nineveh and Babylon’ (1853). He wrote also ‘Early Adventures in Persia, Susiana, and Babylonia’ (2 vols., 1887).