Ancient history from the Monuments.
A TIMELY AND VALUABLE SERIES
FOR THE
Biblical Student and for the General Reader.
From the Egyptian, Assyrian, and Persian monuments and tablets archæologists
have, during the past few years, derived a mass of illustration and evidence on the
manners, customs, languages, and literature of the ancient peoples at whose history we
have glimpses in the Old Testament. This knowledge is of the greatest interest to the
student of antiquity and of striking significance to the entire Christian world, because
of the light which it throws upon the earlier books of the Bible. Up to this time,
however, this information had been inaccessible, in the main, save to scholars. In these
volumes the results of these researches, so far as they have progressed, are for the first
time brought fully within popular comprehension. Each treatise has been prepared by a
specialist who is a master in his own department. The methods and the men by whom
discoveries have been made are subordinated to a plain, popular, and concise statement
of the facts developed which are narrated in connection with those previously established.
Occasional illustrations give all necessary clearness and precision to the text. To the
general reader and to the historical student these volumes are alike interesting and
valuable.
NOW READY:
I.
EGYPT.
From the Earliest Times to B. C. 300.
By S. BIRCH, LL.D.
| One vol., 12mo, cloth, with 12 illustrations. |
$1 00 |
II.
ASSYRIA.
From the Earliest Times to the Fall
of Nineveh.
By GEORGE SMITH,
Of the Department of Oriental Antiquities,
British Museum; author of “Assyrian
Discoveries,” etc. With 13 Illustrations.
III.
PERSIA.
From the Earliest Period to the
Arab Conquest.
By WM. VAUX, M.A., F.R.S.,
Author of “Sketch of Ancient Assyria and
Persia,” “Nineveh and Persepolis Described,”
“Hand-book of Antiquities in
the British Museum,” etc., etc. With 5
Illustrations.
NEARLY READY:
IV.
BABYLONIA.
By GEORGE SMITH.
| Each, 1 vol., 12mo, cloth |
$1.00 |
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