The monuments and the Old Testament : evidence from ancient records . great Babylon?Did not Cyrus capture this same great city and allowthe Jewish exiles to return in joy to the ruins of theirhomes and capital, Jerusalem? 19. These simple questions affirmatively answeredin the Old Testament lead to another line of we not find in those countries recognized inother works than the Old Testament records anytraces of a former race? Were there no externalsigns that such persons or peoples ever existed?Some of the cities mentioned in the Old Testamentbooks are now in existence, for exampl
The monuments and the Old Testament : evidence from ancient records . great Babylon?Did not Cyrus capture this same great city and allowthe Jewish exiles to return in joy to the ruins of theirhomes and capital, Jerusalem? 19. These simple questions affirmatively answeredin the Old Testament lead to another line of we not find in those countries recognized inother works than the Old Testament records anytraces of a former race? Were there no externalsigns that such persons or peoples ever existed?Some of the cities mentioned in the Old Testamentbooks are now in existence, for example, Damascus,Joppa, and Jerusalem; and in Herodotus day, Sidon,Babylon, and Tjrre could be found. Let us take abirds-eye view of the countries where such events aresupposed to have taken place. Down in the beautifulland of the Nile stand some of the most majestic ofall ruins, pyramids, sphinxes, temples, and crumblingwalls of dead cities, all coming down from unknowntimes. Then the great Mesopotamian valley, thefertile fields of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, are. RUINS IN BIBLICAL COUNTRIES 37 dotted by mounds of mysterious origin, through someof which protrude bits of walls and veneered bricktowers. The east coast line of the Mediterranean Seaat the foot of Lebanon is also rich in remains of abygone glory. The mountain passes of southernAsia Minor in many places are hewn on one or bothsides into artistic forms to commemorate the gloryof a once-flourishing people. The lonely columnsand lion-laired ruins of Persia point to a oncewealthy, proud ruler of a powerful and expansivenation. The very ground of the holy city, Jerusa-lem, is teeming with marks of an older city, of anolder civilization. In the following chapters weshall look at some of the excavations carried onwithin the limits of these lands. CHAPTER III EGYPTS RIDDLE READ 20. The Nile River robs the Sahara desert on itseastern boundary of a long strip of territory. Tothis margin of land is given the name Egypt. Inanci
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