The civilization of Babylonia and Assyria
Its remains, language, history, religion, commerce, law, art, and literature
by Morris Jastrow | 1915 | 168,585 words
This work attempts to present a study of the unprecedented civilizations that flourished in the Tigris-Euphrates Valley many thousands of years ago. Spreading northward into present-day Turkey and Iran, the land known by the Greeks as Mesopotamia flourished until just before the Christian era....
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PLATE I
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Sir Austen Henry Layard |
Ernest de Sarzec |
Georg Friedrich Grotefend |
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Sir Henry C. Rawlinson |
Rev. Edward Hincks |
Jules Oppert |
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