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In 1845, the British traveler Austin Layard headed the archaeological excavations at Qoynaq Hill and the Nimrud area and uncovered the lost palace of King Sennacherib, which contained seventy-one halls and prominent sculptures. He also discovered the palace of Ashurbanipal and his library, which included more than twenty thousand Sumerian clay figures. The book contains an exciting description of those great discoveries at the archaeological site, in addition to the difficulties he faced in discovering and preserving the sites. The book also includes paintings, diagrams, illustrations, drawings and maps with rare explanations in a descriptive narrative style of the antiquities and incidents that took place during the excavation, taking into account the suspense of the events and the accuracy of the information. The book enables the reader to access very important information about the history of the ancient East, its culture and the nature of social life in that period, so It is important for the student, researcher, and interested person alike because of its uniqueness in its chapter, the distinctiveness of its style, and the abundance of its information despite the scarcity of books published on the ancient history of Iraq and its antiquities in both Arabic and English.