Mesopotamia

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Excerpt from Mesopotamia: The Key to the FutureThis is the home of the mighty Nimrod, the earliest of hunters, who founded Calneh or Nippur, where I was privileged to see some of the most ancient Assyrian treasures being excavated by American archaeologists. Oft times have I travelled from Busrah on British ships conveying hundreds of Arab ponies to India, when I recalled the fact that horses were introduced into Mesopotamia years ago by the Kassites, who, largely on account of their superior mobility, were able to conquer a country whose inhabitants till then had used only asses and Cattle for transport.Philologists may rejoice while others will weep over the fact that in this plain of Shinar the Confusion of Tongues and the multiplication of dialects took place at a time when cuneiform characters became con founded and the dwellers in Mesopotamia were driven forth to colonise the continents.But Babylon was also the mother of astronomy, and to her ancient system of dividing the day we are indebted for the twelve divisions on the dials of our clocks.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.