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    The Discovery of the Ancient Flood
    The Discovery of the Ancient Flood
    The Discovery of the Ancient Flood
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    The Discovery of the Ancient Flood

    By RYAN MOORHEN

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    In the spring of 1852, Layard was obliged to close his excavations for want of funds, and he returned to England with Rassam, leaving all the northern half of the great mound of Kuyûnjik unexcavated. He resigned his position as Director of Excavations to the British Museum's Trustees, and Colonel (later Sir) H. C. Rawlinson, Consul-General of Baghdâd, undertook to direct any further excavations that might be possible to carry out later on. During the summer, the Trustees received a further grant from Parliament for excavations in Assyria, and they dispatched Rassam to finish the exploration of Kuyûnjik, knowing that the lease of the mound of Kuyûnjik for excavation purposes which he had obtained from its owner had several years to run. When Rassam arrived at Môsul in 1853 and was collecting his men for work, he discovered that Rawlinson, who knew nothing about the lease of the mound which Rassam held, had given the French Consul, M. Place, permission to excavate the northern half of the mound, i.e., that part of it which he was most anxious to excavate for the British Museum. He protested but in vain and, finding that M. Place intended to hold Rawlinson to his word, devoted himself to clearing out part of the South West Palace which Layard had attacked in 1852.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDTTV PUBLICATIONS
    Release dateMar 12, 2021
    ISBN9781393108887
    The Discovery of the Ancient Flood
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    RYAN MOORHEN

    Ryan Moorhen, now identified as a Biblical Archaeologist, Independent Assyriologist, Semitic and Cuneiform manuscripts researcher and enthusiast of all things ancient, made his first visit to the middle-east whilst serving in Iraq. It was during that difficult time he became enthralled in the origins of civilization. Upon his return  he embarked on his now long career in Theological Studies, carving his niche in Sumerian Theology and proving the connections between the Sumerian origins of civilization and Theological studies of Worldwide cultures.

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      The Discovery of the Ancient Flood - RYAN MOORHEN

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      INTRODUCTION

      The Discovery of the Tablets at Nineveh by Layard, Rassam, and Smith.

      In 1845–47 and again in 1849–51, Mr. (later Sir) A. H. Layard carried out a series of excavations among the ruins of the ancient city of Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixteen thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and they are left; and also much cattle (Jonah iv, II). Its ruins lie on the left or east bank of the Tigris, exactly opposite the town of Al-Mawsil, or Môsul, which was founded by the Sassanians and marked the site of Western Nineveh. At first, Layard thought that these ruins were not those of Nineveh, which he placed at Nimrûd, about 20 miles downstream, but of one of the other cities built by Asshur (see Genesis. x, 11, 12). Thanks, however, to Christian, Roman, and Muhammadan tradition, there is no room for doubt about it, and the site of Nineveh has always been known. The fortress which the Arabs built there in the seventh century was known as Kal'at-Nînawî, i.e., Nineveh Castle, for many centuries, and all the Arab geographers agree in saying that tile mounds opposite Môsul contain the ruins of the palaces and walls of Nineveh. Furthermore, few of them fail to mention that close by them is Tall Nabi Yûnis, i.e., the Hill from which the Prophet Jonah preached repentance to the inhabitants of Nineveh, that exceeding great city of three days' journey" (Jonah iii, 3). Local tradition also declares that the Prophet was buried in the Hill, and his supposed tomb is shown there to this day.

      The Walls and Palaces of Nineveh.

      The situation of the ruins of the palaces of Nineveh is well shown by the accompanying reproduction of the plan of page 2the city made by Commander Felix Jones, I.N. The remains of the older palaces built by Sargon II (B.C. 721–705), Sennacherib (B.C. 705–681), and Esarhaddon (B.C. 681–668) lie under the Hill called Nabi Yûnis, and those of the palaces and other buildings of Ashur-bani-pal (B.C. 681–626) under the mound which is known locally as Tall al-'Armûshîyah, i.e., The Hill of 'Armûsh, and Kuyûnjik. The latter name is derived from two Turkish words meaning many sheep, in allusion to the large flocks of sheep that find their pasture on and about the mound in the early spring. These two great mounds lie close to the remains of the great west wall of Nineveh, which in the time of the last Assyrian Empire was washed by the waters of the river Tigris. At some unknown period, the course of the river changed, and it is now more than a mile distant from the city wall. The river Khausur, or Khoser, divides the area of Nineveh into two parts, and passing close to the southern end of Kuyûnjik, empties itself into the Tigris. The ruins of the wails of Nineveh show that the east wall was 16,000 feet long, the north wall 7,000 feet long, the west wall 13,600 feet, and the south wall 3,000 feet; its circuit was about 13,200 yards or 7½ miles.

      Discovery of the Library of the Temple of Nebo at Nineveh.

      In the spring of 1852, Layard, assisted by H. Rassam, continued excavating the South West Palace at Kuyûnjik. In one part of the building, he found two small chambers, opening into each other, which he called the chamber of records, or the house of the rolls. He gave them this name because to the height of a foot or more from the floor they were entirely filled with inscribed baked clay tablets and fragments of tablets.

      Some tablets were complete, but by far, the larger number of them had been broken up into many fragments, probably by the falling in of the roof and upper parts of the walls of the buildings when the city was pillaged and set on fire by the Medes and Babylonians. The tablets that were kept in these chambers numbered many thousands. Besides those that were found in them by Layard, large numbers have been dug out all along the corridor which passed the chambers and led to the river, and a considerable number were kicked on to the riverfront by the feet of the terrified fugitives from the Palace when it was set on fire. The tablets found by Layard were of different sizes; the largest were rectangular, flat on one side and convex on the other, and measured about nine ins. by 6½ ins., and the smallest was about an inch square. The importance of this find was not sufficiently recognized at the time, for the

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