Examples of using Layard in English and their translations into Serbian
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Layard now turned to politics.
His name was Austin Henry Layard.
Layard retired to Venice.
The Royal Geographical Society Layard.
Layard, discovers the ruins of the ancient Assyrian library of Ashurbanipal.
The text was first discovered in 1849 by British archeologist Sir Austen Henry Layard while searching the ruins of the Library of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh.
Sir Austen Henry Layard in the late 1840s described the rock tombs of Van-Kelesi and the Argišti chamber.
In the first half of the 19th century many other archaeological expeditions were organized; Giovanni Battista Belzoni and Henry Salt collected Ancient Egyptian artifacts for the British Museum, Paul Émile Botta excavated the palace of Assyrian ruler Sargon II,Austen Henry Layard unearthed the ruins of Babylon and Nimrud and discovered the Library of Ashurbanipal and Robert Koldeway and Karl Richard Lepsius excavated sites in the Middle East.
In the late 1840s Sir Austen Henry Layard examined and described the Urartian rock-cut tombs of Van Castle, including the Argishti chamber.
Layard and his team were excavating ancient sites throughout Mesopotamia and found many treasures.
When it was discovered by the British archaeologist,Austin Henry Layard, in the 1840s, it seems to have already been in such poor condition that its surface was, in all probability, rapidly crumbling away.
Layard recovered from the library is a series of cuneiform tablets called the Enûma Eliš, also known as"The Seven Tablets".
According to Jeffrey Sachs, the director of the Earth Institute,who co-edited the World Happiness Report with Richard Layard of the London School of Economics and John Helliwell of Canada's University of British Columbia, gains in GNP cannot alone promote happiness.
Layard believed that the native Syriac Christian communities living throughout the Near East were descended from the ancient Assyrians.[1].
After spending a few months in England, and receiving the degree of D.C.L. from the University of Oxford andthe Founder's Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, Layard returned to Constantinople as attaché to the British embassy, and, in August 1849, started on a second expedition, in the course of which he extended his investigations to the ruins of Babylon and the mounds of southern Mesopotamia.
In 1849, Austen Henry Layard made an archaeological expedition to the city of Nineveh, a city that's mentioned in the Bible.
Layard resigned from office in 1869, on being sent as envoy extraordinary to Madrid.[5] In 1877 he was appointed by Lord Beaconsfield Ambassador at Constantinople, where he remained until Gladstone's return to power in 1880, when he finally retired from public life.
Layard was born in Paris, France, to a family of Huguenot descent. His father, Henry Peter John Layard, of the Ceylon Civil Service, was the son of Charles Peter Layard, Dean of Bristol, and grandson of Daniel Peter Layard the physician.
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 Assyrians, and the Yezidis, and an Inquiry into the Manners and Arts of the Ancient Assyrians(2 vols., 1848- 1849).
In 1845, encouraged and assisted by Canning, Layard left Constantinople to make those explorations among the ruins of Assyria with which his name is chiefly associated. This expedition was in fulfilment of a design which he had formed when, during his former travels in the East, his curiosity had been greatly excited by the ruins of Nimrud on the Tigris, and by the great mound of Kuyunjik, near Mosul, already partly excavated by Paul-Émile Botta.
