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Ever since excavators began to obtain cuneiform texts from the mounds of Assyria and Babylonia there has been a growing accumulation of valuable historical records throwing light upon two of the world's greatest centers of civilization. Many scholars have had a share in the fascinating task of interpreting these documents. All who are interested in the discovery of past events owe much to those who have deciphered annalistic literature unearthed after it had been buried for ages in the Tigris-Euphrates Valley. Such a debt of gratitude is due the late Professor D. D. Luckenbill for his. two-volume publication of translations of Assyrian royal inscriptions, ranging in date from about the middle of the third millennium B.c. to the seventh century B.C. It is cause for satisfaction that we are now able to trace the fortunes of the land of Assyria with considerable certainty for a period of almost two thousand years. There are lacunae, it is true, but many of the broad historical facts stand clearly before us. Professor Luckenbill sought to place the available data of Assyrian historical archives at the disposal of the general student as well as the research specialist. The merits of his
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- Author
- Raymond P. Dougherty
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1928
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)