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 180
ly re-lations with the wildest and poorest but good-naturedMadan tribes in Southern Babylonia. Everywhere, likeEraser, they^ had found traces of an early civilization and a DURING IJ^ CENTURY: ASSYRIA AND HAliYLONIA 141 former dense population, and for the first time they hadclosely examined these… … Ruins of Tell Hammikm (J)ide, Warka, Muqayyar, and others became at once cen-tres of general interest, and were rescued forever from theoblivion of past centuries. Loftus enthusiastic report of all the wonderful thingswhich he had seen, illustrated by careful sketches and plansand by a number of…
