 | 1847 - 502 pages
...which are excavated from the foundations of all the buildings in Mesopotamia, Babylonia, and Chaldsoa, that possess the highest and most authentic claims...primitive race which settled in the plains of Shinar. It embraces, however, so many varieties, and it is spread over such a vast extent of country, that... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - 1847 - 160 pages
...and Chaldea, that possess the highest and most authentic claims to antiquity;" and he thinks it " not extravagant therefore to assign its invention to the primitive race which settled in the plain of Shinar."* In the recent excavations made by M. Botta and Mr. Layard, on or near the site of... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - 1847 - 152 pages
...Chaldea, that possess the highest and most authentic claims to antiquity;" and he thinks it " not » extravagant therefore to assign its invention to the primitive race which settled in the plain of Shinar."* In the recent excavations made by M. Botta and Mr. Layard, on or near the site of... | |
 | 1848 - 446 pages
...Babylonia, and Chaldsca." " It is, therefore, hardly extravagant,'' as Major Rawlinson observes, " to assign its invention to the primitive race which settled in the plains of Shinar." The inscriptions which are considered as belonging to this third kind o/ cuneiform writing display... | |
 | American Ethnological Society - 1848 - 894 pages
...and Chaldea, that possess the highest and most authentic claims to antiquity;" and he thinks it " not extravagant therefore to assign its invention to the primitive race which settled in the plain of Shinar."* In the recent excavations made by M. Botta and Mr. Layardi on or near the site of... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1851 - 336 pages
...which are excavated from the foundations of all the buildings in Mesopotamia, Babylonia, and Chaldaea, that possess the highest and most authentic claims...the primitive race which settled in the plains of hina r. It embraces, however, so many varieties, and it is spread over such a vast extent of country,... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1851 - 340 pages
...which are excavated from the foundations of all the buildings in Mesopotamia, Babylonia, and Chaldaea, that possess the highest and most authentic claims...the primitive race which settled in the plains of hinar. It embraces, however, so many varieties, and it is spread over such a vast extent of country,... | |
 | Joseph Bonomi - 1852 - 434 pages
...which are excavated from the foundations of all the buildings in Mesopotamia, Babylonia, and Chaldaea, that possess the highest and most authentic claims...primitive race which settled in the plains of Shinar. It embraces, however, so many varieties, and it is spread over such a vast extent of country, that... | |
 | Charles Forster - 1854 - 432 pages
...which are excavated from the foundations of all the buildings in Mesopotamia, Babylon, and Chaldaca, that possess the highest and most authentic claims...three distinct groups : — Babylonian, Assyrian, and Elymsan ; and the two former of these groups will again admit of subdivision into minor branches. Of... | |
 | Charles Forster - 1854 - 406 pages
...which are excavated from the foundations of all the buildings in Mesopotamia, Babylon, and Chaldica, that possess the highest and most authentic claims...primitive race which settled in the plains of Shinar." — Sawlinson, ap. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. x. part 1., Prelim. Rern., p. 20. " The... | |
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Babylonian is unquestionably the most ancient of the three great classes of Cuneiform writing. It is well known that legends in this character are stamped upon the bricks which are excavated from the foundations of all the buildings in Mesopotamia, Babylonia,... 
