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...Philadelphia Museum is now being built upon a lot of ground opposite Franklin Field. It is designed when completed to cost five million dollars, and is intended to contain, besides the collections owned by the city, the wonderful series of Babylonian relics, secured by Professor Hilprecht, and rivalled in value by the collection in Constantinople alone...
Professor Herman V. Hilprecht, Curator of the Babylonian Department of the Museum, recently returned to Philadelphia after conducting one of the most successful expeditions ever sent out by the University. His work consisted in carrying out archaeological investigations in Asia Minor and in cataloguing antiquities in the Imperial Ottoman Museum at Constantinople. Professor Hiprecht, though his official capacity as cataloguer of these specimens, has succeeded in obtaining for the university many rare archaeological objects. Another occurrence of interest in this connection has been the series of lectures recently delivered by Dr. Doerpfeld, the eminent German archaeological scholar...
...poem is somewhat cosmical in character, and probably dates from extreme antiquity. In several parts it suggests the Book of Genesis. It is, so far as known, the most remarkable product of Babylonian imagination...
...find distinct evidence of a high civilization in Babylon as early as 3800 B. C., and by 1500 B. C. the 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...
...Marduk and the Dragon. A Babylonian Cosmogonic Myth...