The Babylonian Story of the Deluge and the Epic of Gilgamish - 1920
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The Babylonian Story of the Deluge and the Epic of Gilgamish - 1920
A Wallis Budge E a Wallis Budge,E a Wallis Budge
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In 1845-47 and again in 1849-51 Mr. (later Sir) A. H. Layard carried out a series of excavations among the ruins of the ancient city of Nineveh,
that great city, wherein are more
than sixteen thousand persons that cannot discern between
their right hand and their left; and also much cattle ‘ (Jonah iv, 11). Its ruins lie on the left or east bank of the Tigris, exactly opposite the town of Al-Mawsil, or Mosul, which was founded by the Sassanians and marks the site of Western Nineveh. At first Layard thought that these ruins were not those of Nineveh, which he placed at Nimrud, about 20 miles downstream, but of one of the other cities- that were builded by Asshur (see Gen. x, 11, 12). Thanks, however, to Christian, Roman and Muhammadan tradition, there is no room for doubt about it, and the site of Nineveh has always been known…
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