A historical laboratory; how the expert historian does his . from the Lion tothe Virgin, and among many gaps in the worm-eatenpapyrus I saw to the Archer; then star, moon/observations, and it was evident that I held in myhands an old Greek treatise on astrology or character of the writing showed this treatisemight be as early as the third century before Christ,and might have belonged to the lost Alexandrianlibrary, or have been written by one of the great groupof Greek scientists of that wonderful century to whichEuclid and Archimedes and Eratosthenes made ones
A historical laboratory; how the expert historian does his . from the Lion tothe Virgin, and among many gaps in the worm-eatenpapyrus I saw to the Archer; then star, moon/observations, and it was evident that I held in myhands an old Greek treatise on astrology or character of the writing showed this treatisemight be as early as the third century before Christ,and might have belonged to the lost Alexandrianlibrary, or have been written by one of the great groupof Greek scientists of that wonderful century to whichEuclid and Archimedes and Eratosthenes made ones fingers fairly tingle. A HISTORICAL LABORATORY First Archaeological Expedition through WesternAsia after the War After spending the greater part of the winter in EgyptProfessor Breasted proceeded with his expedition to WesternAsia, where he was given the most cordial assistance by theBritish and French governments. Landing in Lower Babylonia,the expedition ascended the Tigris to the Assyrian capitals(Assur, Calah, Nineveh), and the northern (Kurdish)
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