A history of Babylonia and Assyria . mply what he had heard from others con-cerning these ruins. Benjamin of Tudela wrote his narrative in He-brew. It was known to the learned during thethirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries,but was not printed until 1543, when it appearedat Constantinople in the rabbinic character. In1633 it appeared, with a Latin translation, atLeyden. It later appeared in English andFrench, and thus became known over a largepart of Europe. Though thus well known, thebook of Benjamin appears to have attracted noattention to the buried cities of Nineveh andBabylon. L
A history of Babylonia and Assyria . mply what he had heard from others con-cerning these ruins. Benjamin of Tudela wrote his narrative in He-brew. It was known to the learned during thethirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries,but was not printed until 1543, when it appearedat Constantinople in the rabbinic character. In1633 it appeared, with a Latin translation, atLeyden. It later appeared in English andFrench, and thus became known over a largepart of Europe. Though thus well known, thebook of Benjamin appears to have attracted noattention to the buried cities of Nineveh andBabylon. Like the first scant notices of Persepolis givenby the earlier travelers, these notes of Benjamin lations see Thomas Wright, Early Travels in Palestine, London (Bohn),1848, pp. 94, 100, and especially A. Asher, The Itinerary of Rabbi Ben-jamin of Tudela. London and Berlin, 1840, i, pp. 91, 92, further, The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela, by Marcus N- Adler,Jewish Quarterly Review, xvi, pp. 453, ff. Street Scene in Copyright by Underwood ..v- Underwood, X. 110 EARLY EXPLORERS IN BABYLONIA 111 of Tudela would bear fruit in a later day, for theywould incite other travelers to visit the samemysterious ruins. The next word of information concerning theancient sites was brought to Europe by anotherJewT, the Rabbi Pethahiah of Ratisbon (Regens-burg), whose recollections were set down by oneof his disciples,1 after the scanty notes which hehad made by the way. The time wTas now hastening on toward theperiod wxhen men of Europe began to travel ex-tensively in the Orient, and of these manyvisited both Mosul and Baghdad. Most ofthem, however, did not pay any attention tothe ruins which lay near these cities. Many,like Sir John Mandeville (1322-56), made nojourney to these sites, but were contented toreport what they had heard concerning Polo appears to have cared nothing forthe ruins, and, though he visited both Mosuland Baghdad, never refers to them. Others
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