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Arabs and Nestorians moving a slab at Kouyunjik

Place: Mosul · today Iraq
Date: 1853

Wood engraving of a gang of workmen, described as Arabs and Nestorians, levering a large stone slab in a trench at Kouyunjik (Nineveh). Layard hired Nestorian (Assyrian) Christians from the Tiyari mountains for his digs.

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Layard, Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon (1853), via Internet Archive

Layard, Austen Henry · Public domain in the United States (published before 1931)

Arabs and Nestorians moving a slab at Kouyunjik

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