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...inter-disciplinary approach, with courses presenting the art, history, political institutions, and philosophies of these ancient cultures on the successful pattern of Soc Sci 111. Harvard may not accommodate a Breasted, but it could certainly enrich its history curriculum with studies of Memphis or Ikhnaton, of Nebuchadrezzar of Chaldea--a sore deficiency in the University at present...
Early Greek sculpture (before 500 B.C.) is distinguished by small, firm smiles of slowly awakening tenderness. So is the archaic art of every great civilization, from ancient Egypt and Chaldea through India and China. The smile reoccurs most poignantly in the great Gothic sculptures at Rheims and Chartres cathedrals. It has a sophisticated echo, more sweetly mysterious than ever, in Leonardo's Mona Lisa. The quiet intensity of the smile-secretive and yet loving, serene and yet troubling-can be mimicked by such moderns as Picasso but never successfully counterfeited; it seems to have fled from modern...
...Alam and Alad, the two bulls of the Sumerians, one on the right hand- and the other on the left of the gate of the temple, of Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End ... in the book of Revelation. " Only Survivor. The astrological trail, says Moran, leads to Chaldea, "the home of astrology par excellence." But at that point, the scholar runs into trouble: much of the evidence there might have been of the astrological origin of the alphabet has long since perished. Where to turn next? "Chinese culture alone . . . has survived with an unbroken history down...
...Maspero's The Dawn of Civilization: Egypt and Chaldea...
...announcement from Iraq fitted anthropological theory. The search for the cultural Eden, where the transition to agriculture actually took place, has long since narrowed down to the highland south of the Caucasus Mountains. On its fringes are ruins of settled villages already old when Egypt and Chaldea were peopled by preagricultural savages. But these villages are too highly developed to have been the first farming settlements. Somewhere nearby, anthropologists have believed, lies the place where man first planted-and waited a season to gather the ripened grain...