. Modern research as illustrating the Bible . tions ; and the more modern work of Adolf Erman,imli-Iiensable to every student of Egyptian antiquity, Life in Ancient Egypt(translated, 1894). 3 See G. Rawlinson, A Memoir of Major-General Sir H. C. Rawlinson (1898),pp. 58, Go f. (in 1836-7), 145 f. (in 1844). The Babylonian text, winch was ina still more inaccessible part of the perpendicular front of the rock (see theillustration on the opposite page), was obtained by him in 1847, with the helpof a Kurdisli boy (pp. 154-7). 4 On Grotefend, and the work of Rawlinson in reading tlie Persian text o
. Modern research as illustrating the Bible . tions ; and the more modern work of Adolf Erman,imli-Iiensable to every student of Egyptian antiquity, Life in Ancient Egypt(translated, 1894). 3 See G. Rawlinson, A Memoir of Major-General Sir H. C. Rawlinson (1898),pp. 58, Go f. (in 1836-7), 145 f. (in 1844). The Babylonian text, winch was ina still more inaccessible part of the perpendicular front of the rock (see theillustration on the opposite page), was obtained by him in 1847, with the helpof a Kurdisli boy (pp. 154-7). 4 On Grotefend, and the work of Rawlinson in reading tlie Persian text ofthis inscription, see more fully Rogers, History of Babylonia and Assyria (NewYork, L900),i. 46-73; Evetts, New Light on the Bible (London, 1892), pp. 79-104;and <;. Rawlinson, op. cit., pp. 50, 307-24. The names of the Persian kingswere the clue with which his investigation started. B .Mnhl had seen at the office of the East India Company in London someinscribed bricks brought from Bassorah, and was at once impressed by -!■ 1 r- ir. — ~ a *■ -y: — ■j: 2 — Q 2 *- ~ ~ -— fej - « Q— z— ~s / .5 •J: QQ7 « z U3 o g H V — u 3 £ :f d ; 2 ~H- -= — ■s. — 5 o — — ; — r- s. y. z c -5 i* QfS ti r s. H p — 0 :/: DQ - o u ^ M -1- — 11 eg 0 -. DECIPHERMENT OE ASSYRIAN INSCRIPTIONS 5 other monuments found by him to the Louvre. The results ofBottas excavations were embodied in five magnificent folio volume-,filled with drawings and inscriptions, published by the FrenchGovernment in 1849-50. In 1849 there appeared in this countrya work, Mr. (afterwards Sir Henry) Layards two volumes calledNineveh and its Remains, which cat once produced a profoundsensation. This work contained an account of excavations carriedon in 1845-7 at the huge mounds of Kouyunjik (opposite to Mosul,on the left bank of the Tigris), the site of the ancient Nineveh, andof Nimrud, eighteen miles to the south-east, the site of the ancientCalah (Gen. x. 11), and of
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