Treasure Seekers: Edge of the Orient Page #2

Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Pam Caragol, Ann Carroll
 
IMDB:
5.7
Year:
2001
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the enterprising Layard used his

facility with different cultures

to get a job with the British

ambassador to the Ottoman Empire.

For three years,

he served as a kind of roving reporter.

He was really a secret agent.

A lot of his work was very sensitive,

and negotiating with

these sorts of people.

And the skills he gained

were priceless,

but it is only a certain sort of

person who will gain those skills.

Very outgoing, very entrepreneurial,

in a way.

Never at a loss.

That's where Layard was brilliant.

Layard's new skills were just

the right mix for his next assignment.

A new kind of conflict was

heating up in the Middle East.

Ever since Napoleon had brought back

treasures from Egypt,

the great powers had been on the

lookout for archeological booty.

The idea of museums,

temples of the muses,

was one which was capturing the

imagination of 19th century Europeans.

The British, the French, the Germans

were all building these palaces

in which to place... well,

what are they going to place there?

Like Layard, the French recognized

the potential of the strange mounds

rising out of

the Middle Eastern desert.

Now they had begun to dig,

and at Khorsabad they were uncovering

some very interesting sculptures.

There was certainly a competition

between the French and the British

as to who could find

the biggest treasures

in order to stock the museums

in Paris and London.

And, in fact, newspaper articles

and magazines at that time

actually described these finds

as "Trophies of empire."

To catch up with the French,

Layard persuaded the British ambassador

to fund a trial excavation

at his mound at Nimrud.

Within weeks, he was ready to begin,

instructed to keep a low profile.

On the 8th of November 1845,

having secretly procured a few tools,

and carrying with me a variety of

guns, spears and other weapons,

I declared that I was going to hunt

wild boars in a neighboring village,

and floated down the Tigris

on a small raft.

It was dark by the time Layard

arrived at the mound.

Five years had passed

since he'd first laid eyes on it.

His head was filled with excitement.

He found it almost impossible

to sleep.

Visions of palaces underground,

of sculptured figures and endless

inscriptions floated before me.

After forming plan after plan

for removing the earth

and extricating these treasures,

I fancied myself wandering

in a maze of chambers

from which I could find no outlet.

At dawn the next morning,

the resourceful young Englishman

assembled his team and set to work.

He had no experience,

very little money,

and no guarantee of success.

He really had no expertise in what he

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Ann Carroll

Ann Carroll is a camogie player. twice an All Ireland inter-county medalist and the outstanding personality in the first decade of the history of the All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship winning medals with both St Patrick’s, Glengoole from Tipperary and St Paul’s from Kilkenny. She played inter-county camogie for both Tipperary and Kilkenny and Interprovincial camogie for both Munster and Leinster. more…

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