Word: lyon
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Yesterday afternoon in the Fogg Art Museum Professor Lyon read some most interesting letters translated from the Assyrian. They were written by the Kings of Babylon, Assyria, Egypt and other countries, and date at least from 1500 B. C., While others are of even more ancient times. Egyptian scholars recognize some of these tablets as despatches written by the Pharoahs. They cast a remarkable light on both the social and political conditions of the great nations which existed long before Moses was born...
Assyrian Readings. II. Some Oriental Diplomatic Correspondence of the 15th Century B. C. Professor D. G. Lyon. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
...engaged in an active correspondence with the eighteenth Egyptian dynasty. The medium of communication was the Assyrian language. Some 300 of the dispatches were found at ElArmana in Egypt in 1887, relating to royal intermarriage, military operations, and the giving of presents. This correspondence is the subject of Professor Lyon's Assyrian Reading in the Fogg Museum at 4 p. m. today...
Professor Lyon closed the lecture with stereopticon views of Babylonian and Assyrian ruins and inscriptions...
Assyrian Readings. II. Some Oriental Diplomatic Correspondence of the 15th Century B. C. Professor D. G. Lyon. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...