Mesopotamia

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Excerpt from Mesopotamia: The Key to the Future I have never seen it, for, under the Turkish regime, that primitive paradise was unfortunately nowhere to be found. I met, however, in Bagdad a clever impostor, a wily tobacconist, who closed up his shop and travelled extensively through Europe and America, collecting large sums of money from gullible Westerners by posing as the famous "Discoverer of Noah's Ark and the Golden Mountains of the Moon." These also I have never seen, but, apart from all spurious claims and fantastic titles, it is nevertheless true that Mesopotamia cradled the human race, nurtured it for centuries, until a new era was introduced by the Flood incidents, which are recorded not only in the Hebrew Scriptures, but also in interesting cuneiform inscriptions that have been unearthed by archæologists in Mesopotamia. This is essentially a land of origins. The oldest sea route in the world, utilised by the first navigators of the high seas, was the Persian Gulf, and the numerous mounds at Bahrain remind us of the world's debt to the Phoenicians, who gave us the alphabet and the earliest system of weights and measures, and who originally migrated to Syria from the shores of the Persian Gulf and the ports of Mesopotamia. From this land also the Hebrew race took its rise when Abraham came from Ur of the Chaldees and settled in Canaan. 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.