The Archæology of the Cuneiform Inscriptions

Book digitized by Google from the library of New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. "The first six chapters ... embody the Rhind lectures in arch©Œology which I delivered at Edinburgh in October 1906. The seventh chapter appeared as an article in the Contemporary review for August 1905."--Pref Preface.--I. The decipherment of the cuneiform inscriptions.--II. The arch©Œological materials; the excavations at Susa and the origin of bronze.--III. The Sumerians.--IV. The relation of Babylonian to Egyptian civilization.--V. Babylonia and Palestine.--Vi. Asia Minor.--VII. Canaan in the century before the exodus. Index "The first six chapters ... embody the Rhind lectures in archæology which I delivered at Edinburgh in October 1906. The seventh chapter appeared as an article in the Contemporary review for August 1905."--Pref Preface.--I. The decipherment of the cuneiform inscriptions.--II. The archæological materials; the excavations at Susa and the origin of