{"product_id":"palace-of-nineveh-lost-cities-book-2","title":"Palace of Nineveh (Lost Cities Book 2)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe tunnel at Kuyunjik came down on Elias Jajou's father, and the debt came due the next morning.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElias is a stonecutter's son in Mosul who follows the English horse races in old newspapers. He drags his father Toma out from under a slab with both legs broken, and Hajji Qasim takes the family's tools against an advance of eleven hundred piastres. Elias keeps the mallet and a carved stone horse's head, burned pink all through.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Rassam brothers put him down as a mason for Austen Henry Layard, who goes down the Tigris on a raft of goatskins to Nimrud. The diggers find carved slabs, wedge-shaped writing and a chariot with three horses. Layard is sure it is Nineveh. Elias sets his father's horse beside the new stone and sees different stone cut by a different hand. Then the Pasha's officer finds a flake of gold in Elias's trench.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Endeavor Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45288314273858,"sku":"LC-02-EBK-SKU","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/5873\/1330\/files\/02_Palace_of_Nineveh_cover_2e9a668c-24ec-4663-982a-2badc4660452.jpg?v=1790731773","url":"https:\/\/whitemountainpress.com\/products\/palace-of-nineveh-lost-cities-book-2","provider":"White Mountain Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}