Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1887)
Yaggy, L. W, Haines, Thomas L · Des Moines, Iowa : G.S. Cline · leaf 438
nmnji -aj^p ^mvw Far away from the highways of modern commerce and thetracks of ordinary travel lay a city buried in the sandy earthof a half-desert Turkish province, with no trace of its place ofsepulture. Vague tradition said it was hidden somewhere nearthe river Tigris; but for a long series of…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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