Sir Stratford Canning's (Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe) gift to the British
Museum of the marbles of Halicarnassus.
Layard's published researches, "Nineveh and its Remains," and "Babylon and Nineveh".
His work, "The Monuments of Nineveh" (1849-53).
Obelisk and monoliths of Shalmaneser II., King of Assyria, discovered by Layard at Nimroud.
George Smith and his discovery of the Babylonian account of the Deluge.
Light thrown by these discoveries on the Pharaoh of the Bible, and on Melchizedek,
who reigned in Abraham's day.
Other archaeologists of note, Glaser, De Morgan, De Sarzec, and Botta.
Relics of Buddha, and the Hittite inscriptions.