Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . vationof the remains of the city of Babylon werefirst conducted by Sir Henry Kawlinson in1854, and much work was afterward doneby Hormuzd Rassam; but the most notableachievements of recent years are the excava-tions conducted by DeSarzec, under the aus-pices of the French Government, at Telloh,fr
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . vationof the remains of the city of Babylon werefirst conducted by Sir Henry Kawlinson in1854, and much work was afterward doneby Hormuzd Rassam; but the most notableachievements of recent years are the excava-tions conducted by DeSarzec, under the aus-pices of the French Government, at Telloh,from 1881 to 1895, and those of the Univer-sity of Pennsylvania at Nippur, begun in1888, and which are still going on. Through these excavations the history of Babylonia has been carried back to the fourth millenium b. c, and while there are still some important gaps to be filled out, the course of events in Babylonia and Assyria from this remote period down to the year 587 b. c, when Cyrus the Mede established a new empire on the ruins of Babylonia and Assyria, is tolerably clear. Hand in hand with the excavations has gone the decipherment of the inscriptions found in such abundance beneath the mounds. On clay, stone, and metals, rulers inscribed records of their reigns ; and added to pictorial. THE BLACK OBEEISK OF 8HAL-MANESER II., KING OP ASSYRIA. b. c 860-824. (British Museum.)
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