Delivered as the Rhind Lectures at Edinburgh in 1906, these chapters explain how cuneiform was deciphered and what the tablets reveal. The Oxford Assyriologist discusses the excavations at Susa, the Sumerians, the relation of Babylonian to Egyptian civilization, Babylonia and Palestine, Asia Minor, and Canaan in the century before the Exodus.
A fascinating snapshot of Near Eastern archaeology in its pioneering age, for readers of ancient and biblical history. Download the free EPUB.