Results of the Discoveries to Chronology and History.--Names of Assyrian Kings in the Inscriptions.--A Date fixed.--The Name of Jehu.--The Obelisk King.--The earlier Kings--Sardanapalus.--His Successors.--Pul, or Tiglath Pileser.--Sargon.--Sennacherib.-- Essarhaddon.--The last Assyrian Kings.--Tables of proper Names in the Assyrian Inscriptions.--Antiquity of Nineveh.--Of the Name of Assyria.--Illustrations of Scripture.--State of Judæa and Assyria compared.--Political Condition of the Empire.-- Assyrian Colonies.--Prosperity of the Country.--Religion.-- Extent of Nineveh.--Assyrian Architecture--Compared with Jewish.--Palace of Kouyunjik restored.--Platform at Nimroud restored.--The Assyrian fortified Inclosures.--Description of Kouyunjik.--Conclusion 491 NINEVEH AND BABYLON. CHAPTER I. THE TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM RESUME EXCAVATIONS AT NINEVEH.--DEPARTURE FROM CONSTANTINOPLE.--DESCRIPTION OF OUR PARTY.--ROADS FROM TREBIZOND TO ERZEROOM.--DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY.--ARMENIAN CHURCHES.--ERZEROOM.--RESHID PASHA.--THE DUDJOOK TRIBES.--SHAHAN BEY.--TURKISH REFORM.--JOURNEY THROUGH ARMENIA.--AN ARMENIAN BISHOP.--THE LAKES OF SHAILU AND NAZIK. After a few months' residence in England during the year 1848, to recruit a constitution worn by long exposure to the extremes of an Eastern climate, I received orders to proceed to my post at Her Majesty's Embassy in Turkey. The Trustees of the British Museum did not, at that time, contemplate further excavations on the site of ancient Nineveh. Ill health and limited time had prevented me from placing before the public, previous to my return from the East, the results of my first researches, with the illustrations of the monuments and copies of the inscriptions recovered from the ruins of Assyria. They were not published until some time after my departure, and did not consequently receive that careful superintendence and revision necessary to works of this nature. It was at Constantinople that I first learnt the general interest felt in England in the discoveries, and that they had been universally received as fresh illustrations of Scripture and prophecy, as well as of ancient history sacred and profane.