A Popular Account of Discoveries at NinevehHarper & Brothers, 1854 - 360 oldal |
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... night at the small Arab village of Hammum Ali , around which are still the ves- tiges of an ancient city . From the summit of an artificial eminence we looked down upon a broad plain , separated from us by the river . A line of lofty ...
... night at the small Arab village of Hammum Ali , around which are still the ves- tiges of an ancient city . From the summit of an artificial eminence we looked down upon a broad plain , separated from us by the river . A line of lofty ...
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... night in the jungle which clothes the banks of the river , and wandered during the day undisturbed by the tribes of the desert . A Cawass , who had been sent with us by the Pasha of Mosul , alarmed at the solitude , and dreading the ...
... night in the jungle which clothes the banks of the river , and wandered during the day undisturbed by the tribes of the desert . A Cawass , who had been sent with us by the Pasha of Mosul , alarmed at the solitude , and dreading the ...
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... night , when the glare of a fire lighted up the entrance to a miserable hovel . Through a crevice in the wall , I saw an Arab family crouching round a heap of half - extinguished embers . The dress of the man , the ample cloak and white ...
... night , when the glare of a fire lighted up the entrance to a miserable hovel . Through a crevice in the wall , I saw an Arab family crouching round a heap of half - extinguished embers . The dress of the man , the ample cloak and white ...
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... night , to Selamiyah , a village three miles distant , and to some Arab tents in the neighborhood , to pro- cure men to assist in the excavations . I had slept little during the night . The hovel in which we had taken shelter , and its ...
... night , to Selamiyah , a village three miles distant , and to some Arab tents in the neighborhood , to pro- cure men to assist in the excavations . I had slept little during the night . The hovel in which we had taken shelter , and its ...
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... Night interrupted our labors . I returned to the village well satisfied with their result . It was now evident that the re- mains of buildings of considerable extent existed in the mound ; and that although some had been injured by fire ...
... Night interrupted our labors . I returned to the village well satisfied with their result . It was now evident that the re- mains of buildings of considerable extent existed in the mound ; and that although some had been injured by fire ...
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Abd-ur-rahman alabaster Amadiyah amongst ancient appear Arabs Asheetha Assyrian Baghdad banks bas-reliefs Beder Khan Bey British Museum brought building carried castle Cawass centre Chaldæans chamber chariot chief Christians descended desert Diodorus Siculus discovered discovery distance earth edifice encampment entrance eunuchs Euphrates excavations feet formed fragments head Hormuzd Rassam horsemen horses houses human-headed Ibrahim Agha inhabitants inscriptions Ismail Pasha Jebours journey Kalah Kalah Sherghat Kasha Khorsabad king Kouyunjik Kurdish Kurds lions Melek Mesopotamia monuments Mosul mound mountains Mussulmans N. W. Palace Nestorian night Nimroud Nineveh ornaments party Pasha plain plunder priests principal probably raft Rassam ravine reached remains resembling river rocks rode round rubbish ruins sacred scarcely sculptures Shammar Sheikh Adi Sheikh Nasr side Sinjar slabs Sofuk stones sun-dried bricks tents Tigris Tiyari Tkhoma tomb trees trenches tribe valley village walls warriors whilst winged bulls winged figures women workmen Yezidis