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...conclusion of his report, Professor Lyon calls attention to the importance of original research work in Palestine, Babylonia, Assyria, Persia and Egypt, now being carried on by several European and American universities. He writes: "It will be a happy day for the University and for the Museum when some friend or friends shall make it possible for us to have a share in this most fascinating and most important work of recovering and of publishing the records of those great peoples whose ideas constitute such an important element in our own civilization...
...also the earnest wish of the Semitic Department that Harvard should conduct explorations in Babylonia-Assyria, from which country have come the most impressive of all Semitic discoveries. Another field which invites the departments more strongly than any other is Palestine. Little exploration has yet been done there, yet Palestine is so important in the world's history that even small results in the number of objects found would reward large expenditure of time and money...
Professor Lyon gave the fourth of his series of Assyrian Readings, in the Fogg Museum yesterday afternoon. The subject of the reading was a mythological poem from the library of Saradanapalus of Assyria, describing a combat between the god Marduk and Tiamat, a dragon. The poem is written on six tablets, parts of which were brought to light in the British Museum in 1875 by George Smith...
...Babylonian-Assyrian culture had spread over Western Asia to the Mediterranean. But our knowledge of that civilization, said the lecturer, has come to us during the present century, most of it indeed since 1840. The French began investigations in Assyria in 1843, the English in 1845, and a society in Philadelphia has during the past six years made some valuable discoveries. In 1842 M. Botta, French consul at Mosul, was instructed by his government to make some explorations. He excavated near Nineveh an old Assyrian palace, probably built about 700 B. C. The palace has over two hundred chambers. This...
Yesterday afternoon in the Fogg Art Museum Professor Lyon read some most interesting letters translated from the Assyrian. They were written by the Kings of Babylon, Assyria, Egypt and other countries, and date at least from 1500 B. C., While others are of even more ancient times. Egyptian scholars recognize some of these tablets as despatches written by the Pharoahs. They cast a remarkable light on both the social and political conditions of the great nations which existed long before Moses was born...