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Chaldean mountaineer employed on the Nineveh excavations (no. 285), c. 1850
Wood engraving of a Chaldean (Assyrian) mountaineer from Kurdistan employed on the excavations at Nineveh, in a turban and wide sash with a basket under his arm. The book, compiled from L'Illustration, says three hundred "Nestorian Chaldeans" worked with pickaxes on the digs, referring to these two figures (nos. 285 and 286).
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Adolphe Joanne (compiler); L'Illustration · Published 1850; public domain.
