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...Babylonian Books. Their decipherment by Grotefend and Rawlinson. Illustrated lecture. Professor Lyon. Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
Professor Lyon will deliver, this afternoon, in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, his second lecture on Babylonian Books. The subject of today's lecture will be "The decipherment of the Babylonian Books by Grotefend and Rawlinson," and the lecture will be made doubly interesting by photographic slides and copies of these books...
...almost entirely new to students of the University. It was not until comparatively recently that American archaeologists made the first steps towards carrying out the projects of excavation and discovery in Babylonia and Assyria. In their first determined effort, however, they were signally successful, and the specimens of Babylonian books which they secured form the nucleus of a collection which it is to be hoped will increase from year to year as discoveries are made. It is upon this American collection together with the famous specimens accumulated by European scholars, that Professor Lyons will lecture. He will include...
...good-sized audience was in attendance at the Jefferson Physical Laboratory yesterday afternoon to hear Professor Lyon's first lecture upon "Babylonian Books." The first part of the lecture was taken up with an account of the attempts that have been made from the early part of this century up to the present time for the excavation of ruins in Babylonia and Assyria. The Babylonia and books proper can hardly be called books in our sense of the word, since they are nothing more than finely inscribed tablets of stone or baked clay. The ruins from which these tablets have...
...next lecture in the course will be on Friday afternoon, the subject being "The decipherment of Babylonian books...