This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE Georg Friedrich Grotefend 61 Henry C. Rawlinson 80 Street Scene in Mosul 110 The Mound of Babil at Babylon 123 The River Euphrates South of Babylon 130 Illustration from Hager's Dissertation 137 View from Mosul Toward Kuyunjik 145 Mound of Kuyunjik from the South 103 View from Kuyunjik Toward Mosul 173 Austen Henry Lay ard 170 Letter of Austen Henry Lay ard 188 View from Kuyunjik Toward Neby Yunus 192 View from Northeastern Corner of Kuyunjik 194 Lowering Winged Bull (Layard) 190 View from El-Mugheir (Ur of the Chaldees) 203 Hormuzd Rassam 210 Jules Oppert 221 Edward Hincks 225 Eberhard Schrader 256 Archibald Henry Sayce 269 Seated Figure of Gudea 295 The Mound of Nippur 303 John Henry Haynes 307 Plan of the Ruins of Babylon 310 Robert Koldewey 313 Excavations at Babylon 315 Ishtar Gateway, Babylon 317 The Bull of the Ishtar Gateway 318 Friedrich Delitzsch 320 The Ruins of Asshur 323 The Temple of Anu and Adad 324 Two Stelae at Asshur 325 Trench in the Mound at Babil 346 The Persian Inscriptions at Behistun 349 Sumerian Placque of Ur-Nina 366 xix PACING PAGE The River Euphrates 407 Brick Manufacture, Tigris Valley 409 River Euphrates, 250 Miles Northwest of Babylon 413 River Euphrates, South of Babylon 420 Mound of El-Mugheir (Ur of the ChaWees) 430 Excavations at Nippur 433 Excavations on El-Kasr, Babylon 436 Mound of Birs Nimroud (Borsippa) 437 The Peribolos and Tower of Babylon 438 Mound of Akerkuf 439 Northeast Gate and Wall of Harran 446 PREFACE During the last ten years of the past century, when not absorbed in the duties of a busy professorship, I wrote this book. In its interest I made repeated journeys to Europe, and also to the East, and the greater part of the text was written during my summe