The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 2); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . and over 700 quarto, pages, andabout one-half as much more has appeared in variousarchaeological publications. The British Museumhas more than 40,000 cuneiform tablets, the Louvremore than 10,000, the Imperial Museum of Berlinmore than 7,000, that of the University of Pennsyl-vania more than 20,000, and that of Constantinoplemany thousands more, awaiting the patient toil ofour Assyriologists. The period of time covered bythese documents is more
The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 2); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . and over 700 quarto, pages, andabout one-half as much more has appeared in variousarchaeological publications. The British Museumhas more than 40,000 cuneiform tablets, the Louvremore than 10,000, the Imperial Museum of Berlinmore than 7,000, that of the University of Pennsyl-vania more than 20,000, and that of Constantinoplemany thousands more, awaiting the patient toil ofour Assyriologists. The period of time covered bythese documents is more surprising than their num-ber. They occur from prehistoric times, or about5000 b. c, down to the first century before theChristian Era. But this is not all, for, according tothe unanimous opinion of all modern Assyriologists,by far the largest part of the Assyro-Babylonianliterature and inscriptions are still buried under thefertile soil of these wonderful regions, which havee^-er been the land of surprises, awaiting furtherexplorers and decipherers. As has already been remarked, the meagre andoften unreliable information concerning Assyria and. ASSYRIA 9 ASSYRIA Babylonia which has come down to us throughthe Persian, Greek, Latin, and Arabic writers—?historians and geographers—has contributed littleor nothing to the advancement of our knowledge ofthese wonderful countries. The early Europeantravellers in the region of the Tigris and Euphratesvalley, such as Benjamin of Tudela (1160), JohnEldred (1583), Anthony Shirley (1599), Pietro dellaValle (1614-26), John Cartwright (1610), Gas-paro Balbi (1590), John Otter (1734), Niebuhr(1765), Beauchamp, Olivier, Hagers, and others atthe end of the eighteenth century, have left us arather vague and superficial account of their personalvisits and impressions. Later travellers, however,such as Claudius James Rich (1811, 1821-22), J. (1816), Sir Robert Ker Porter (1817-20),Captain Robert Mignan (1826-28), G. Baillie-Frase
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