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Title: The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Rawlinson, George, 1812-1902
Subjects: Mauritius Export Development and Investment Authority History, Ancient
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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Hammam. the same neighbourhood, on the very border of theArabian desert/ Further investigation will pro-bably add largely to this catalogue, for many partsof Babylonia are still to some extent unexplored. 1 8eeFYasevs Mesopotamia and As-syria, pp. 150-155 ; Ainsworths Be-searclies in Mesupotamia, p, 127 and)i. 177 ; Ross and Lviicli, in Journal of Geographical Society, vol. ix. )ip.443 et seq.; Lottiis Chalda-.a and hiu-siana, passim, nwA Journal of Geoc/ra-phical Society, vol. xxvi. pp. 133-144. 30 THE FIRST MONARCHY. Chap. T. This is especially true of the tract between the Shat-el-Hie and the lower Tigris,^ a district which, accord-ing to the geographers, abounds with ruins. No
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Tel-Ede. doubt the most extensive and most striking of theold cities have been visited; for of these Europeansare sure to hear through the reports of natives. Butit is more than probable that a number of the mostinteresting sites remain unexplored, and even un-visited; for these are not always either very exten-sive or very conspicuous. The process of gradualdisintegration is continually lowering the height ofthe Chaldsean ruins ; and depressed mounds are com-monly the sign of an ancient and long-deserted city.^Such remains give us an insight into the characterof the early people, which it is impossible to obtain - Iliis district has been visited byMr. Taylor, but its marshy cliarac-ter makes it very difficult to explore at all completely. ^ Loftus, Clialdcea and Susiana,p. 251. CiiAP. T. BORDER COUNTRIES —ARABIA. 31 from ruins where various populations have raisedtheir fabrics in succession upon the same spot. The cities here enumerated may not perhaps, inall cases, have existed in

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