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The Origin of Nations; In Two Parts: on Early Civilisations. on Ethnic Affinities, Etc
The Origin of Nations In Two Parts on Early Civilisations on Ethnic Affinities Etc Author:George Rawlinson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1878 Original Publisher: Scribner Subjects: Civilization, Ancient Ethnology Civilization History / Ancient / General History / Civilization Juvenile Nonfiction / History / Ancient Social Science / Archaeology Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the ... more »original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 33 CHAPTER III. ON THE ANTIQUITY OF CIVILISATION AT BABYLON. High antiquity claimed for Babylonian civilisation by some writers -- View of Bunsen -- Want of foundation for this view -- Classical date for the foundation of Babylon, B. c. 2230 -- Views of Berosus agree nearly -- Septuagint date for the kingdom of Nimrod, B. c. 2567 -- Assyrian date of B. c. 2286 -- General conclusion from the cuneiform inscriptions and Berosus combined -- From the inscriptions only -- Character of the civilisation -- Architecture -- Implements -- Pottery -- Writing -- Engraving of hard stones -- Dresses -- Progress made in the different arts unequal. The advocates of an extreme antiquity for the commencement of civilisation and of settled monarchy in Egypt have sometimes endeavoured to bolster up their cause by alleging an equal or even a greater antiquity for the kingdom and civilisation of the Babylonians. It was evident to them that the world at large would not be persuaded that a single country stood in an entirely exceptional position; and that, while elsewhere the dawn of history could nowhere be dated much before B. c. 2000, in Egypt existing records carried us back a thousand, two thousand, or even three thousand years earlier. Accordingly the effort was made to find at least one other country which might keep Egypt company; and none seemed capable of being turned to such good account as Chaldsea or Ba...« less