History of ancient peoples - 1897 Author:Willis Boughton Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ILLUSTRATIONS. GREAT HALL OF COLUMNS AT KARNAK (RESTORED). BUILT BY SETI I. ' . . . . . . Frontispiece NEOLITHIC SPEAR-HEAD OR CELT. (FRONT AND SIDE VIE... more »W.) FOUND NEAR C1IELMSFORD, ESSEX. (FROM " TRANSACTIONS OF THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB")3 7 CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTION 3 Ig MOUND OF NIMRUD. (HOMMEL) 3 21 SEPULCHRAL VAULT AT MUGHEIR3 22 ROCK PICTURE AT BORGEN4 ....... 23 CHALDEAN CYLINDER3 25 MAP OF THE REGIONS ONCE OCCUPIED BY THE YELLOW RACE, OR PEOPLES INTERMEDIATE BETWEEN THE BLACKS AND THE WHITES ......... 49 STONE AXES FROM LATER STONE AGE4 51 ANCIENT SWISS LAKE-DWELLINGS, ZURICH LAKE. (FROM DE- SIGN BY .DR. F. KELLER)5 53 GREAT WALL OF CHINA 6 .' 6l INTRODUCTION OF BUDDHISM INTO CHINA1 .... 69 TEMPLE AND ALTAR OF HEAVEN 6 . . . . . 71 GROOVED AXE OF SIENITE 8 78 CASA GRANDE RUIN8 ........ 79 CAVATE LODGES OF THE RIO GRANDE8 . . . . 81 MAYA WAR GOD8 ......... 83 ORNAMENTAL PIPE OF RED SANDSTONE 8 84 1 From Rawlinson's Story of Ancient Egypt. 3 From Church's Story of Early Britain. 3 From Ragozin's Story of Chaldea. 4 From Boyesen's Story of Norway. 5 From Hug and Stead's Story of Switzerland. 6 From Curson's Problems of the Far East. 7 From Douglas's Society in China. 8 From I3th Annual Report Bureau of Ethnology. STEMMED CHIPPED FLINT ARROW-HEAD ' 85 STONE OF TIZOC2 87 SCULPTURE REPRESENTING HUMAN SACRIFICE2 ... 89 STATUE FROM PALENQUE " 9l CASA DEL GOBERNADOR, UXMA1. a ...... 93 MOUND OF ANCIENT UR 3 97 EXCAVATIONS AT MUGHEIR (ur) ' 99 GREAT HALL OF COLUMNS AT KAR.NAK (RESTORED). BUILT BY SETI I. 4 lOj HITTITE INSCRIPTION 6 115 HITTITE ROCK-SCULPTURE AT IBRIZ IN CILICIA, REPRESENTING A HITTITE GOD 5 117 SULTAN SULEYMAN 6 ........ 135 SEA-FIGHT IN THE TIME...« less