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The Assyriologist George Smith (1840–76) was trained originally as an engraver, but was enthralled by the discoveries of Layard and Rawlinson. He taught himself cuneiform script, and joined the British Museum as a 'repairer' of broken cuneiform tablets. Promotion followed, and after one of Smith's most significant discoveries among the material sent to the Museum - a Babylonian story of a great flood - he was sent to the Middle East, where he found more inscriptions which contained other parts of the epic tale of Gilgamesh. In 1875, he published a history of Assyria for the 'Ancient History from the Monuments' series. Using biblical accounts as well as the Akkadian documents in clay and stone then being excavated in the area, Smith traces the history of the Assyrian empire from its origins until the fall of Nineveh in 612 BCE. Several other books by Smith are also reissued in this series.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Archaeology Archaeology by period / region

• Full title: Assyria
• Subtitle: From the Earliest Times to the Fall of Nineveh
• Author: George Smith
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 198
• EAN: 9781108079068
• ISBN: 1108079067
• ID: 05341487
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 266 g
• Dimensions: 217 × 142 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. September 2014

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