Word: nebuchadnezzars
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...July 9), has found a magnificent Sumerian palace; a library of cuneiform tablets, containing grammars and dictionaries of the Sumerian and Babylonian languages; a bone stylus six inches long, the oldest known pen; and a solid gold earring and other jewelry from a clay coffin of the time of Nebuchadnezzar. Kish was one of the oldest Babylonian capitals, already the seat of four great dynasties before the age of Sargon...
...Anglo-Pennsylvania expedition at Ur of the Chaldees, under C. Leonard Woolley, has made progress in revealing the great temple of the Moon God and his consort, erected by early Sumerian kings about 3,600 B. C., and remodeled by Nebuchadnezzar, the Assyrian conqueror, more than a score of centuries later...
...have the assurance that man may not live by bread alone; and on diverse occasions men have resorted to the food of the barns and fowl. Not to mention the immortal Nebuchadnezzar, late of Babylon-on-the-Euphrates, at the pinch of fashion or necessity even civilized man has been forced to follow the example of his less epicurean brother, and subsist on other than the staff of life...
...numerous other attempts at the restoration of this building. The third copy is miniature of the Hibrew Tabernacle in the wilderness. Other acquisitions are several small collections of cuneiform tablets and a few specimens of stone vases of the early Babylonian period; also a well preserved inscription of Nebuchadnezzar, of the sixth centuary B. C., on a clay tablet, and several fragments of Cappadocian tablets. There is also a collection of fifteen pieces of antique jewelry in gold and a gift, by Dr. W. M. Woodworth, of 84 copper coins from the Maldive Islands, bearing legends in Arabic Characters. Attention...
...abound in these allusiouns. Abraham paid the children of Heth four hundred shekels of silver of the cave of Machpelah. Job says, "Surely there is a vein for silver; the earth hath dust of gold." In the book of Daniel there is an account of the great image which Nebuchadnezzar set up on the plains of Dura, three score cubits in height and six cubits in breadth. Then, too, there is the picture of Solomon's splendor...