Sayce, A: Assyria, Vol. 7 -

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Excerpt from Assyria, Vol. 7: Its Princes, Priests, and People And the revelation that awaited the decipherer was startling in the extreme. The ruins of Nineveh yielded not only sculptures and inscriptions carved in stone, but a whole library of books. True, the books are written upon clay, and not on paper, but they are none the less real books, dealing with all the subjects of knowledge known at the time they were compiled, and presenting us with a clear and truthful re?ection of Assyrian thought and belief. We can not only trace the archi tectural plans of the Assyrian palaces, and study the bas-reliefs in which the Assyrians have pictured them selves and the life they led; we can also penetrate to their inmost thoughts and feelings, and read their history as they have told it themselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.