# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/austen-henry-layard
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:57:02.178Z

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name: "Austen Henry Layard"
slug: "austen-henry-layard"
description: "Sir Austen Henry Layard was a British Assyriologist, traveller, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, politician and diplomat. He was born to a mostly English family in Paris and largely raised in Italy. He is best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace reliefs known, and in 1851 the library of Ashurbanipal. Most of his discoveries are now in the British Museum. He made a large amount of money from his best-selling accounts of his excavations."
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birthDate: "1817-03-05"
deathDate: "1894-07-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump