Transactions of the Second Session of the International Congress of Orientalists: Held in London in September, 1874Robert K. Douglas Trübner, 1876 - 456 pages |
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... tion of forgers has been directed to the production of spurious monu- ments . Some of these are too gross to effect the deception they wish to effect ; but others require a considerable practical knowledge of works of ancient art to ...
... tion of forgers has been directed to the production of spurious monu- ments . Some of these are too gross to effect the deception they wish to effect ; but others require a considerable practical knowledge of works of ancient art to ...
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... tion of grain , the thousands of products of the animal , vegetable , and mineral kingdoms have at all times directed the attention of the West to the East , just as in the East itself they have called forth some of the greatest efforts ...
... tion of grain , the thousands of products of the animal , vegetable , and mineral kingdoms have at all times directed the attention of the West to the East , just as in the East itself they have called forth some of the greatest efforts ...
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... tion , and endeavoured to show that , by comparing this version with the corresponding Persian text , I had arrived at a partial understand- ing of the newly discovered records of Assyria and Babylonia . I did not assume to have done ...
... tion , and endeavoured to show that , by comparing this version with the corresponding Persian text , I had arrived at a partial understand- ing of the newly discovered records of Assyria and Babylonia . I did not assume to have done ...
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... that in the earliest in- scriptions wherein this defect is observable , Assyrio - Babylonian culture and civiliza- tion already stand very high . ON THE MEDIAN DYNASTY ; ITS NATIONALITY AND ITS CHRONOLOGY 34 SEMITIC SECTION .
... that in the earliest in- scriptions wherein this defect is observable , Assyrio - Babylonian culture and civiliza- tion already stand very high . ON THE MEDIAN DYNASTY ; ITS NATIONALITY AND ITS CHRONOLOGY 34 SEMITIC SECTION .
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... tion I have been enabled to fix the date of a double phenomenon which struck the sight of men , consisting in an eclipse , and in an apparition of Sirius1 visible only during this eclipse , on Tuesday , 1 The latitude of Sirius is ...
... tion I have been enabled to fix the date of a double phenomenon which struck the sight of men , consisting in an eclipse , and in an apparition of Sirius1 visible only during this eclipse , on Tuesday , 1 The latitude of Sirius is ...
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