The site was examined in 1836 by Henry Rawlinson and then by A. H. Layard.

Rassam then returned to England and, with the help of his friend Layard, started a new career in government with a posting to the British Consulate in Aden.

It was based on similar active labour market policies in Sweden, which Layard has spent much of his academic career studying.

Layard, who was in Mosul on his first expedition ( 1845 – 1847 ), was impressed by the hard-working Rassam and took him under his wing ; they would remain friends for life.

Layard provided an opportunity for Rassam to travel to England and study at Oxford ( Magdalen College ), where he stayed for 18 months before accompanying Layard on his second expedition to Iraq ( 1849 – 1851 ).

His knowledge of the smaller mammals, birds, reptiles and fishes was instead incorporated in the work of others, notably George Robert Waterhouse and his coworker Edgar Leopold Layard who in the introduction to Notes on the ornithology of Ceylon says I have had the advantage of consulting with Mr. Blyth and Drs.

Austen Henry Layard in Nineveh, 1852

* Layard, A. H. ( 1852 ).

Sir Austen Henry Layard GCB, PC (; 5 March 1817 – 5 July 1894 ) was a British traveller, archaeologist, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, author, politician and diplomat, best known as the excavator of Nimrud.

Layard remained in the neighbourhood of Mosul, carrying on excavations at Kuyunjik and Nimrud, and investigating the condition of various peoples, until 1847 ; and, returning to England in 1848, published Nineveh and its Remains: with an Account of a Visit to the Chaldaean Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, and an Inquiry into the Manners and Arts of the Ancient Assyrians ( 2 vols., 1848 – 1849 ).

* Layard, A. H. ( 1848 – 49 ).

* Layard, A. H. ( 1849 – 53 ).

* East – West Migration ( with Layard, Blanchard, and Krugman ) MIT Press, 1992.

* Chapman's zebra, Equus quagga chapmani – Layard, 1865

* Admiral Sir Michael Layard, 1992 – 1995

* John Layard ( 1891 – 1974 ), anthropologist and psychologist

Many specimens were found by Sir Austen Henry Layard in his excavations at Nimrud in 1845 – 1851.

In Ceylon Templeton worked mainly on Lepidoptera, Coleoptera and Hymenoptera alongside Edgar Leopold Layard ( 1824 – 1900 ).

The library is an archaeological discovery credited to Austen Henry Layard ; most tablets were taken to England and can now be found in the British Museum, but a first discovery was made in late 1849 in the so-called South-West Palace, which was the Royal Palace of king Sennacherib ( 705 – 681 BC ).

A tablet unearthed in 1854 by Austen Henry Layard in Nineveh reveals Ashurbanipal as an " avenger ", seeking retribution for the humiliations the Elamites had inflicted on the Mesopotamians over the centuries:

* Layard, A. H. ( 1854 ).

In a tablet unearthed in 1854 by Henry Austin Layard, Ashurbanipal boasts of the destruction he had wrought:

In the 1840s and 1850s the Museum supported excavations in Assyria by A. H. Layard and others at sites such as Nimrud and Nineveh.

The collection was dramatically enlarged by the excavations of A. H. Layard at the Assyrian sites of Nimrud and Nineveh between 1845 and 1851.

A crystal lens, turned on the lathe, was discovered by Austen Henry Layard at Nimrud along with glass vases bearing the name of Sargon ; this could explain the excessive minuteness of some of the writing on the Assyrian tablets, and a lens may also have been used in the observation of the heavens.

During 1866 Layard founded " Compagnia Venezia Murano " and opened a venetian glass showroom in London at 431 Oxford Street.

When he was 20 years old, he was hired by British archaeologist A. H. Layard as a pay master at a nearby dig site.

It was recovered by Austen Henry Layard in 1849 ( in fragmentary form ) in the ruined Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh ( Mosul, Iraq ), and published by George Smith in 1876.

He was adviser with Austen Henry Layard in the scheme of decoration for the Assyrian court at The Crystal Palace, and in 1856 assumed the duties of general manager to the Crystal Palace Company, a post which he held for two years.

* Assyrian relief of King Ashurnasirpal II and a court official, from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal at Nimrud, excavated by Austen Henry Layard in the 1840s ; the medical pioneer James Young Simpson gave the panel to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, who passed it into the national collection

A similar authority was cited by Austen Henry Layard for excavations at Nimrud which he mistakenly believed was Nineveh.

His son, Paul-Émile Botta ( 1802-1870 ), was a distinguished traveller and Assyrian archaeologist, whose excavations at Khorsabad ( 1843 ) were among the first efforts in the line of investigation afterwards pursued by Layard.

Layard assisted Claus Moser on the Robbins enquiry, and later developed a reputation in the economics of education ( with Mark Blaug at LSE ), and labour economics ( in particular with Stephen Nickell ).

The campuses are at opposite ends of Layard Street and are separated by about a 15 minute walk.

Templeton, Layard and George Henry Kendrick Thwaites and later John Nietner ( died 1874 ) contributed almost all that was known of the insect fauna of the island at the end of the first half of the nineteenth century including a privately printed list of Thysanura, Myriapoda, Scorpionidea, Cheliferidae and Phrynidae ( now Amblypygi ) from Ceylon which is not traced, and remarked on the habits of the large poisonous centipedes Scolopendra pallipes and S. crassa in two ( published ) communications to Westwood.

In 1877, Layard became Britain's ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, which ruled Mesopotamia at the time.

There is ongoing discussion among academics over the nature of the Nimrud lens, a piece of quartz unearthed by Austen Henry Layard in 1850, in the Nimrud palace complex in northern Iraq.

At Nimrud, Layard discovered the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II, as well as three other palaces and various temples.

The earliest known lenses were made from polished crystal, often quartz, and have been dated as early as 700 BC for Assyrian lenses such as the Layard / Nimrud lens.

The earliest known lenses were made from polished crystal, often quartz, and have been dated as early as 700 BC for Assyrian lenses such as the Layard / Nimrud lens.

The earliest known lenses were made from polished crystal, often quartz, and have been dated as early as 700 BC for Assyrian lenses such as the Layard / Nimrud lens.