1849 to Quyundjiq and discovered Sennacherib’s palace there. Hormuz Rassam, a native of Mosul assisted Layard and then worked at the site of Quyundjiq 1852–54 and 1878–82. He found Ashurbanipal’s palace and library in 1853. George Smith, who had deciphered the Babylonian flood story in the Gilgamesh Epic in 1872, was sent to the site by The Daily Telegraph. In 1873 he found a tablet which contained 17 further lines of the flood story. Iraqi scholars made some soundings in 1954 at Nebi Yunus that