Reviews

'While he may have wanted to be known as the archaeologist who discovered the Temple Library at Nippur, he is clearly going to be best remembered for the outstanding images he produced, which are used to such good effect in this book.'
Paul T Nicholson - ASTENE Bulletin

'Haynes’ images are evocative of a bygone era. They are documentary in that they record the work of archeologists a little over a century ago. They are melancholic, in sepia with few people, recording long-lost civilizations. But above all they are visual poetry...Haynes’ tale is there for all the world to know the truth about a patient, observant man, who brought the past to life.'
Marion James – Sundays Zaman

'Everyone picking up my copy of this book has asked me where they can buy it. It is indeed quite outstanding as a photographic record of the Ottoman Turkish landscape, then untouched by population explosion and economic modernisation.... Anatolia and the Ottoman Empire attracted the interest of photographers from the 1850s onwards and there are several other volumes of pictures available, but this book is surely destined to be among the most popular, not least because of its very reasonable price.'
Reader’s review – Amazon.co.uk

'This book is much more than a photographic collection celebrating the achievements of the American archaeological photographer, John Henry Haynes (1849-1910). It is a worthy production on 3 counts. First it resurrects the legacy of a photographer who was all but forgotten... Secondly it records these sites from Anatolia and Mesopotamia from a period when often they were standing, visible, and not carted to museums far away...The third and perhaps most surprising element of the book is the artistry of these photographs that is a joy to view and study… This book, a hundred years after the affair, fully restores Hayne’s reputation'
Craig Encer – Anglo-Turkish Society