Word: babylonia
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...recent discovery. A tablet has been found at Nippur unmistakably antedating the Hebrew epic by ten centuries, and giving in surprisingly similar detail, even to names, the creation and fail of man. Supplemented by other records, a complete Sumerian legend can be constructed, which carries the history of Babylonia up to a flood strangely like that which bore Noah on his famous voyage. Thenceforward, the tale is different, and, as the critics would have said, the Hebrew plagiarism ceases...
...with the announcement that he he has unearthed new tablets that "will make the Oriental Museum in the University of Chicago the finest of the kind in the United States." For a long time the University of Pennsylvania has held that place, its claims founded upon its discoveries in Babylonia and its possession of the Nippur tablets with their accounts of the creation of man and the flood. Dr. Breasted is well known among scholars, and he has the hustling qualities of a business man as well. He was the first American to traverse the Arab state and he encountered...
Professor Carl Bezold, of the University of Heidelberg, will deliver, under the auspices of the Semitic Department, an illustrated lecture on "The Influence of Babylonia and Assyria on Modern Civilization" in Emerson J this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be in English, which Professor Bezold speaks with fluency, and will be open to the public...
Professor Bezold is making a brief stay in America, during which he will speak at various universities. He will give, in addition to his address in Emerson J in the evening, a public lecture on "Religious Art in Babylonia and Egypt" in the lecture room of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts at 4.30 o'clock in the afternoon...
...Illustrated lecture on "The influence of Babylonia and Assyria on Modern Civilization," by Professor Carl Bezold, in Emerson...