CG
's friends included Benjamin Disraeli
(with whom she shared poetical enthusiasms before her first marriage), and her cousin Henry Layard
, who became famous as an archaeologist (the discoverer of ancient Nineveh) and who...
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October 1845
Henry Layard
began excavating the ruins of Nineveh, capital of Assyria, aided by both his scholarly reading and his experience of sharing the life of local tribes.
