...apparition. It required no stretch of imagination to conjure up the most strange fancies. This gigantic head, blanched with age, thus rising from the bowels of...mortals, slowly ascending from the regions below. 'This is not the work of men's hands,' exclaimed Sheikh Abdurrahman, who had galloped to the mound...

...twelve feet away in the rubbish, both forming the southern entrance into a chamber. Unfortunately " one of the workmen, on catching the first glimpse...off towards Mosul as fast as his legs could carry him. . . . He had scarcely checked his speed before reaching the bridge. Entering breathless into the...

...twelve feet away in the rubbish, both forming the southern entrance into a chamber. Unfortunately " one of the workmen, on catching the first glimpse...off towards Mosul as fast as his legs could carry him. . . . He had scarcely checked his speed before reaching the bridge. Entering breathless into the...

...not surprised that the Arabs had been amazed and terrified at this apparition. This gigantic figure, blanched with age, thus rising from the bowels of...glimpse of the monster, had thrown down his basket (.for removing earth) and run off towards Mosul as fast as his legs could carry him. . . . Entering...

...apparition. It required no stretch of imagination to conjure up the most strange fancies. This gigantic head, blanched with age, thus rising from the bowels of...monster, had thrown down his basket and run off towards AIosul as fast as his legs could carry him." " I now ordered a trench to be dug due south from the...

...required no great stretch of imagination to conjure up the most strange fancies. This gigantic head, blanched with age, thus rising from the bowels of...mortals, slowly ascending from the regions below." With inimitable vivacity Layard details for us the various verdicts upon his find, delivered by Arab...

...apparition. It required no stretch of imagination to conjure up the most strange fancies. This gigantic head, blanched with age, thus rising from the bowels of...mortals, slowly ascending from the regions below." The discovery of this wonderful monster (it turned out to be a winged, human-headed lion) made a tremendous...

...apparition. It required no stretch of imagination to conjure up the most strange fancies. This gigantic head, blanched with age, thus rising from the bowels of...mortals, slowly ascending from the regions below." Always a master of the art of picturesque narrative, Layard is nowhere more vivacious than in his description...

...apparition. It required no stretch of imagination to conjure up the most strange fancies. This gigantic head, blanched with age, thus rising from the bowels of...mortals, slowly ascending from the regions below." Always a master of the art of picturesque narrative, Layard is nowhere more vivacious than in his description...

...apparition. It required no stretch of imagination to conjure up the most strange fancies. This gigantic head, blanched with age, thus rising from the bowels of...mortals, slowly ascending from the regions below." I have let Layard tell his own story of this first great success, not because the discovery of one...