{"product_id":"9781108078993","title":"Assyrian Discoveries : An Account of Explorations and Discoveries on the Site of Nineveh, during 1873 and 1874 (Cambridge Library Collection - Archaeology)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Assyriologist George Smith (1840-76) was trained originally as an engraver, but was enthralled by the discoveries of Layard and Rawlinson. He taught himself cuneiform script, and joined the British Museum as a 'repairer' or matcher of broken cuneiform tablets. Promotion followed, and after one of Smith's most significant discoveries among the material sent to the Museum - a Babylonian story of a great flood - he was sent to the Middle East, where he found more inscriptions which contained other parts of the epic tale of Gilgamesh. In this 1875 work, a bestseller in its day, Smith describes his expedition, the difficulties encountered, and the discoveries, including hundreds of inscriptions which increased knowledge of the Babylonian and Assyrian civilisations but also had a profound effect on traditional biblical studies. Smith died in Aleppo in 1876, having revolutionised understanding of the ancient Near East.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52300999098679,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":335.91,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/3548\/7543\/files\/9781108078993-1.jpg?v=1783151610","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.my\/products\/9781108078993","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Malaysia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}