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Updated: October 11, 2026
But in all the long list of enthusiasts not one deserves a higher honor or has reaped a richer harvest than Sir Henry Layard. Layard: "Early Adventures;" "Nineveh and its Remains;" "Nineveh and Babylon;" "Monuments of Nineveh." Botta: "Monument de Ninive." Loftus: "Chaldea and Susiana." Y. Place: "Ninive et Assyrie."
PLACE, Ninive, &c. vol. i. p. Ibid. p. 33. In every country in which buildings have been surmounted by flat roofs, this precaution has been taken "When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence." (Deuteronomy xxii. 8). See also Les Monuments en Chaldée, en Assyrie et