Word: assyrian
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...gender-these are some of the distinguishing traits of Semitic languages. The Babylonian is closely related to its sisters and especially to the Hebrew. A Hebrew scholar on first looking at a translated Babylonian writing recognizes many familiar words. If Sennacherib's letters to Hezekiah had been in the Assyrian language but in the Hebrew written character the receiver could have understood it with ease. There was no essential difference between the Ninevite and the Babylonian forms of language. After the Persian conquest of Babylon, in 538 B. C., the language continued to flourish till the beginning...
...much had been written on the subject that the Royal Asiatic Society of London appointed a committee of scholars to test the accuracy of the translations. The committee submitted to Rawlinson, Hinch, and Fox Talbot copies of a long passage of writting from one of the old Assyrian kings. Independent translations were to be made and returned in sealed packages to the committee. These translations showed such a large amount of agreement that there has never since been reason to doubt the general accuracy of the reading of Babylonian-Assyrian books...
...until the middle of the century that the greatest energy was shown. A French consul named Botta made the most important discovery. At a small town near the site of ancient Nineveh in Assyria, he set to work, and after much labor his workmen succeeded in unearthing an ancient Assyrian palace of huge proportions. During this time discoveries were being made also in the southern part of Babylonia. Huge mounds were being dug out in which were buried palaces, temples and ruined cities. After this time until 1872 there was very little discovery. At that date, George Smith, an Englishman...
...both sexes. The work in the school is carried on at home by a regular correspondence with a careful instructor, and the method, which is purely inductive, will depend for success upon the studious purpose of the pupil. An elementary course is also offered in Aramaic. Arabic and Assyrian...
...many of these objects, as well as specimens of Babylonian-Assyrian art, especially carved seals, are now received direct from the finders in Chaldea by London dealers in antiquities, that it is possible to secure valuable collections without a visit to the Orient. In this way Harvard University has already become possessor of some valuable tablets, and nothing but the lack of money prevents an indefinite enlargement of the collections...