Explorations in Bible lands during the 19th century (1903)
Hilprecht, H. V. (Hermann Vollrat), 1859-1925, Benzinger, I. (Immanuel), 1865-1935, Hommel, Fritz, 1854-1936, Jensen, P. (Peter), 1861-1936, Steindorff, Georg, 1861-1951 · Philadelphia : A. J. Holman · leaf 106
early all those who with pick and spade wereengaged in uncovering the buried monuments of two great ^ Comp. *A Memoir of Major-General Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlin-son, by his brother, Canon George Rawlinson, London, 1898, pp. 139, DUBING 19TH CENTURY: ASSYRIA AND BABYLONIA 71 empires. While… … The Rock of Behistun with the Great Trilingual Inscription his study on the Tigris, became the Rosetta Stone ofAssyriology, and in his master hand the kev to the under-standing of the Assyrian documents.^ So far the leading explorers of Assyrian and Babylonianruins in the nineteenth century had…
