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...history of the Hebrews from their own hands and the cuneiform inscriptions give us the history of the Babylonians and Assyrians with whom the Hebrews came much in contact. From the downfall of their mighty civilization, centuries before Christ, their records were lost till the site of Babylon was identified in 1765. It was not till 1848 that the labors of Botta, Place and Layard brought to light several Assyrian palaces and a mass of sculptures and writings on clay...
...Smith of the British Museum found a part of the great epic, in which the deluge is but an episode. Miss Wolfe of New York gave money for an expedition in 1884, and Dr. Peters of Philadelphia is now working near Babylon where he is excavating a temple or palace...
...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 of our era. Those who used it held also to their ancient script, too conservative to adopt the alphabet. But it is a crowning glory of the Semitic peoples that one of their number invented the alphabet...
...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...
...expedition which was sent out by the University of Pennsylvania to enter upon a systematic search for the sites of the cities of Babylon and Ninevah, of which Dr. Harper of Yale was a member, has been wrecked in the AEgean Sea, near the Isle of Samos. An authentic account of the disaster and of the rescue of the expedition by a Turkish brigantine has been received by Professor James of the U. of P. The accident, however, will not prevent the expedition from continuing its investigation. The party is made up of John P. Peters, Director...