William Kennet Loftus: A 19th-Century Archaeologist in Mesopotamia: Letters transcribed and introduced by John Curtis

This book gathers together hitherto unpublished letters from William Kennett Loftus (1820–1858) to friends and relatives in Newcastle upon Tyne. Loftus is regarded, alongside his contemporary Austen Henry Layard, as one of the foremost British archaeologists of the Victorian period