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...vanished peoples, the important relations to the scientific study of the Old Testament, all make the Assyrian a source of unfailing interest. The Biblical student in particular would be pleased by the paper from Prof. Haupt, of Baltimore, determining the size of the boat in which, according to the Babylonian account, the hero of the deluge escaped destruction...
...with them, but was in Constantinople, working to secure permission to excavate-a permission which the Turks are always loth to grant. Professor Peters felt sure, however, that he would succeed, after which it was his purpose to join the party in Syria, and then proceed to the old Babylonian ruins. The leader of the party is enterprising, and is accompanied by two other Assyrian scholars, as well as by a photographer, etc. Nothing but well-known obstacles presented by the Turkish of ficials seem to stand in the way of success. Babylonia is covered with large artificial mounds marking...
...Babylonian libraries of Nebuchadnezzar and Cyrus, two of the most interesting rulers in the history of the world, are yet to be unearthed. They are, doubtless, still lying beneath the colossal ruins of Babylon. The wonderful discoveries made at Tello by M. de Sarzee, ten years ago, illustrate what may be expected from excavation at new points, and the large number of cuneiform tablets unearthed last winter in Egypt give us a new sense of the prominence of the Assyrian language for international communication in very early times. The natives of Babylonia are always digging at various points...
...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...
Semitic Seminary. Reader: Prof. Lyon. Subject. "The writing of the New Babylonian Empire, (continued). 7 Lowell street...