Cross, Frank Leslie (20051997). The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. Oxford University Press, p. 119. ISBN 978-0-19-280290-3 "In the 19th cent. A. H. Layard, the excavator of Nineveh, first suggested that the local *Syriac Christian communities in the region were descended from the ancient Assyrians, and the idea was later popularized by W. A. Wigram, a member of the Abp. Of Canterbury's Mission to the Church of the East (1895–1915)."
