The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . We do not possess any representations of the ancientpeople which can be distinctly assigned to the earlyCushite period. Abundant hair has been noticed in See Pricliards Physical Hist, of Mwnhind, vol. ii. p. 44, Chap. III. EARLY INHABITANTS OF CHALD^EA, CUSHITES. 67 an early tomb; ^ and this in the later Babylonians,who must have been clesceDded in great part fromthe earlier, was very conspicuous; ^ but otherwise wehave as yet no direct evidence
The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . We do not possess any representations of the ancientpeople which can be distinctly assigned to the earlyCushite period. Abundant hair has been noticed in See Pricliards Physical Hist, of Mwnhind, vol. ii. p. 44, Chap. III. EARLY INHABITANTS OF CHALD^EA, CUSHITES. 67 an early tomb; ^ and this in the later Babylonians,who must have been clesceDded in great part fromthe earlier, was very conspicuous; ^ but otherwise wehave as yet no direct evidence with respect to thephysical characteristics of the primitive race.^ Thatthey were brave and warlike, ingenious, energetic,and persevering, we have ample evidence, which willappear in later chapters of this work ; but we can dolittle more than conjecture their physical appearance,which, however, we may fairly suppose to have re-sembled that of other Ethiopian nations. When the early inhabitants of Chaldsea are pro-nounced to have belonged to the same race with thedwellers upon the Upper Nile, the question naturallyarises, which were the primiti
Size: 1450px × 1723px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1860, books, booksubjecthistoryancient
