Excerpt from Great Explorers Before Columbus: A Paper Read Before the Literary and Historical Society, Quebec, February 2nd, 1883 The progress of archeologic and philologic research is every day revealing new facts as to hitherto undreamed of relations between ancient peoples widely severed. Chinese porcelain has been found in Egyptian tombs. Professor Sayce has shown that the culture of the Babylonians, including the art of writing, had been communicated to the Hittites, and by them to the people of Asia Minor long before ...
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Excerpt from Great Explorers Before Columbus: A Paper Read Before the Literary and Historical Society, Quebec, February 2nd, 1883 The progress of archeologic and philologic research is every day revealing new facts as to hitherto undreamed of relations between ancient peoples widely severed. Chinese porcelain has been found in Egyptian tombs. Professor Sayce has shown that the culture of the Babylonians, including the art of writing, had been communicated to the Hittites, and by them to the people of Asia Minor long before the introduction there of the Phcnnician or Greek alphabet. The still more extraordinary discovery of a connection between the most ancient literature of China and that of the Turan ian founders of Babylon has been made quite recently. For nearly years Chinese scholars had tried in vain to solve the problem of the origin and authorship of the Yih King, but it was not until the Akkadian Syllabaries, brought from Babylonia by the late George Smyth, had been thoroughly studied by Western scholars that the secret was revealed and the affinity between the written characters of Babylon and China was made clear. Thus also is a civilization accounted for which has for millen inms been a puzzle even to those who possessed it and which was already in a stage of considerable advancement when their far-off forefathers first set foot in China. (lon don Quarterly, July, This is only one of the wondrous conquests which philology has made, when wielded by men of patience and insight. 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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