The monuments and the Old Testament : evidence from ancient records . beyond our ken. We can now, asnever before, synchronize the history of many of thenations contemporaneous with Israel. 6. The activities of the explorer and the excavatorare continuous, and are increasing with every museums are rich in treasures brought from theold mounds of the East. To enter the British Muse-um in London, the Louvre in Paris, the Royal Muse-ums of Constantinople, or Berlin, the MetropolitanMuseum at New York, or the ancient treasure-houseof the University of Pennsylvania, is almost equiva-lent t
The monuments and the Old Testament : evidence from ancient records . beyond our ken. We can now, asnever before, synchronize the history of many of thenations contemporaneous with Israel. 6. The activities of the explorer and the excavatorare continuous, and are increasing with every museums are rich in treasures brought from theold mounds of the East. To enter the British Muse-um in London, the Louvre in Paris, the Royal Muse-ums of Constantinople, or Berlin, the MetropolitanMuseum at New York, or the ancient treasure-houseof the University of Pennsylvania, is almost equiva-lent to entering one of the palaces of one of the mon-archs of ancient Assjrria. The pick and the spade haveopened volumes of ancient history, and volumes havebeen written descriptive of the experiences of exca-vators, and of the details of the work of have been produced to present the archaeologi-cal results of excavation, the decipherment of the in-scriptions, and in some cases to describe the pointswherein these results touch the life of Israel. The. VIEW OF COLOSSI FROM SARGONS PALACE AT KHORSABAD(Now in the Louvre, Paris) SOIVIE RESULTS PROVISIONAL 21 books of the last fifty years in this department alonewould make a fair-sized library. 7. In view of the vast achievements of explorers,archaeologists, and linguists during the past half cen-tury, and of the rapidity with which new excavationsare now being conducted in various biblical coun-tries, scholars cannot afford to dogmatize regardingthose periods of history, in which, up to the presenttime, there is a scarcity of facts. The careful studentof history will constantly keep in mind the fragmen-tary character of his sources, and will so state hisconclusions as to admit new light from whateversource. Some of the alleged results of highercriticism have been already often modified in view ofthe discovery of new and hitherto unknown the modifications necessitated by the pursuit oforiental archaeology pro
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