Excerpt from Cuneiform Inscriptions: Chaldean, Babylonian and Assyrian Collections Contained in the Library of J. Pierpont Morgan HE people of Mesopotamia, who occupied the basin of the two great rivers Euphrates and Tigris, very early attained a civiliza tion, which has had a wider influence on mankind than anything previous to the invention of printing and the revival of Greek learning. Echoes of its far distant renown were heard in the classics and both Assyria and Babylon loom large on the political horizon of ...
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Excerpt from Cuneiform Inscriptions: Chaldean, Babylonian and Assyrian Collections Contained in the Library of J. Pierpont Morgan HE people of Mesopotamia, who occupied the basin of the two great rivers Euphrates and Tigris, very early attained a civiliza tion, which has had a wider influence on mankind than anything previous to the invention of printing and the revival of Greek learning. Echoes of its far distant renown were heard in the classics and both Assyria and Babylon loom large on the political horizon of Israel and Judah in the Bible. These ancient empires had passed away, and so long ago that the visitor to the ruins of Babylon or Nineveh was con tent to muse over past greatness and reconstruct from scattered and mythical traditions a dim picture of their glory. Had some spirit whispered that their history and even every-day doings would one day be known again a modern scholar would have smiled in unbelief. All written memorials, if indeed such ancient and barbarous peoples could write, must long have perished. Papyrus or parchment frays out or decays, paper was not invented, and here is a widely different climate from the dust-dry soil or rainless sky of Egypt. Yet it has been even so, not only have wall sculptures been uncovered in the places of an cient kings, depicting their battles, hunting, and even domestic scenes, but more wonderful still the most intimate details of private life, the laws, literature, history, religion, science and arts, are all fully de scribed in innumerable documents often little the worse for having been thousands of years buried beneath the soil. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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