...language, to communicate, as it were telegraphically, with the remotest antiquity of the human raca. We begin with the Sclavonic word for God, which is...distance north of Baghdad, as far south as the Birs Niraroud, is of the age of Nebuchadnezzar. I have examined the bricks i» situ, belonging, perhaps,...

...table of the characters. Perhaps the most interesting of all the Babylonian monuments are the bricks. It was a custom borrowed from Assyria, that the bricks used in building the cities on the Lower Tigris and Euphrates, should be stamped with the name and titles of the royal founder....

...Artaxerxes. Perhaps the most interesting, however, of all the Babylonian monuments are the bricks. It was a custom, borrowed from Assyria, that the bricks...stamped with the name and titles of the royal founder; and I should hope that ultimately specimens of these bricks, collected from every ancient site throughout...

...Artaxerxes. Perhaps the most interesting, however, of all the Babylonian monuments are the bricks. It was a custom, borrowed from Assyria, that the bricks...stamped with the name and titles of the royal founder; and I should hope that ultimately specimens of these bricks, collected from every ancient site throughout...

...Darius or Artaxerxes. The most interesting, however, of all the Babylonian relics, are the bricks. It was a custom, borrowed from Assyria, that the bricks...stamped with the name and titles of the Royal founder ; and Major Rawlinson expresses a hope that, ultimately, specimens of these bricks, collected from...

...monuments are the bricks. It was a custom borrowed from Assyria, that the bricks used in building the cities on the Lower Tigris and Euphrates should be...stamped with the name and titles of the royal founder. It is hoped that ultimately from these bricks, a chronology of the country may be re-constructed. With...

...which we owe to Colonel Rawlinson. It was a custom in Babylon, borrowed perhaps from the Assyrians, that the bricks used in building the ancient cities...stamped with the name and titles of the royal founder. This practice may eventually afford the key to important chronological disclosures ; and Colonel Kawlinson...

...account of the greatness of this monarch is amply vindicated by Colonel Rawlinson, who thus writes — ' With regard to Babylonia Proper, it is a remarkable...fact, that every ruin from some distance north of Bagdad, as far south as the Birs Nimrud, is of the age of Nebuchadnezzar. I have examined the bricks...

...cities of » In his Commentary on the Cuneiform inscriptions, Sir H. Rawl;nson writes as follows : " With regard to Babylonia Proper it is a remarkable...distance north of Baghdad, as far south as the Birs Nimrud, is of the age of Nebuchadnezzar. I have examined the bricks in situ, belonging, perhaps, to...

...Sir H. Rawlinson, who visited the ruins of several cities in Mesopotamia, and who thus writes — " With regard to Babylonia Proper it is a remarkable...distance north of Baghdad as far south as the Birs Nimrud, is of the age of Nebuchadnezzar. I have examined the bricks in situ, belonging perhaps to one...