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Operations are going on in Mesopotamia to unearth the city of Ur and the ruins of Chaldean civilization, antedating by several centuries the civilization of the Nile...
With the "revival of learning" again comes a revival of interest in shot guns, rifles, revolvers, automatics, alarm clocks, tin horns, and noise makers of every variety, including the ancient Chaldean instrument, the vox humana, to disturb the night air at about...
Attention was directed to various works on Babylonian-Assyrian topics, as The Records of the Past, (new ed.), the histories of George Smith, Modern Ragosin, C. P. Tiele, Schrader's Cuneiform Inscriptions and the Old Testament, The Hibbert Lectures for 1887 (Sayce), George Smith's Chaldean account of Genesis, Kellner's translation of the story of the deluge, Zimmer's Babylonische Busspsalmea and Perrot and Chipier on Ancient...
...their tone. "To obscurity and neglect, then, we commit the "Lyceum." In obscurity and neglect it will find honorable company, and it may be satisfied with this lot, which, though it waits the most inferior, is the fate of the most learned productions. Where are the works of Chaldean, of Persian and of Egyptian wisdom? Ages have revolved since their utter perdition, and if in the sack of Alexandria it was their office to heat the baths of the Saracens, we may be contented to cumber the shelves of the book-seller...
Original poems in the Chaldean, Chinese, Arabic, Turkish, Armenian, Syriac, Georgian, Cingalese, Greek, Latin, French, English, German, Dutch, Hungarian, Bohemian, Albanian, Danish and Italian languages were read in the halls of the Propaganda in Rome, last month, by the students. The occasion was the twenty-fifth anniversary of the celebration of the mass of the rector, Dr. Gustavo Courado...