Produced by Jeroen Hellingman 

The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from
Nineveh. 

By E.  A.  Wallis Budge. 

The Discovery of the Tablets at Nineveh by Layard, Rassam and Smith. 

In 1845-47 and again in 1849-51 Mr.  (later Sir) A.  H.  Layard carried
out a series of excavations among the ruins of the ancient city of
Nineveh, "that great city, wherein are more than sixteen thousand
persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left;
and also much cattle" (Jonah iv, II).  Its ruins lie on the left or
east bank of the Tigris, exactly opposite the town of Al-Mawsil,
or Môsul, which was founded by the Sassanians and marks the site
of Western Nineveh.  At first Layard thought that these ruins were