Austen Henry Layard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Austen Henry Layard

British politician (1817–1894)

Date of Birth: 05-Mar-1817

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 05-Jul-1894

Profession: writer, politician, diplomat, historian, painter, art historian, archaeologist, anthropologist, assyriologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Sir Austen Henry Layard (; 5 March 1817 – 5 July 1894) was an English traveller, archaeologist, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, politician and diplomat.
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.