Travels and Researches in Chaldaea and Susiana
Travels and Researches in Chaldaea and Susiana
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GBPThis 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.
Product details
November 2014Paperback
9781108077453
536 pages
216 × 140 × 30 mm
0.67kg
38 b/w illus. 3 maps
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Part I. Chaldaea and Susiana:
- 1. London to Baghdad
- 2. Baghdad to Baylon
- 3. Hillah
- 4. View from Birs Nimrud
- 5. The marshes of Babylon
- 6. Kufa
- 7. Kerbella
- 8. Climate of Chaldaea
- 9. From Hillah into the desert
- 10. The mighty marsh
- 11. Diwaniyya
- 12. Bedouins
- 13. Plans and preparations for excavating on Warka
- 14. Winter
- 15. 'The land of Shinar'
- 16. 'Wuswas' ruin
- 17. New styles of decorative art
- 18. The absence of tombs in the mounds of Assyria
- 19. Bank-notes of Babylon
- 20. Sinkara
- 21. Treasures found at Tel Sifr
- 22. Mohammerah
- 23. Setting out for Susa
- 24. Departure from Shuster
- 25. The tomb of the prophet Daniel
- 26. Early history of Susa
- 27. Excavations commenced by Colonel Williams
- 28. The great palace of Darius at Susa
- 29. Hostility and reconciliation
- 30. A long trench
- 31. The 'black stone'
- Chronological table
- Part II. Warka.
