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Over the roughly eight years from 1846 to the time of this portrait in 1854, Hormuzd Rassam, working both under Austen Henry Layard and independently, uncovered first-millennium-BCE tombs, libraries and palaces, including that of Sennacherib, who ruled Assyria and Babylonia in the seventh century BCE, shown in this artist’s conception produced in 1853, which used the discoveries to imagine how the palace’s northeastern facade and entrance might have appeared. Iraq's First Archeologist