Records of the Past: Being English Translations of the Ancient Monuments of Egypt and Western Asia, Published Under the Sanction of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

Records of the Past possesses a melancholy interest. It contains the last literary monument of one of the most valued of my fellowworkers, M. Arthur A miaud, who died suddenly just after completing the final pages of his translations of the inscriptions ofT el-loh. No other Assyrian scholar had so thoroughly mastered the secrets of the non-S emitic language of ancient Chaldaea, and the knowledge which has perished with him is for science an irreparable loss. The hand that traced the interpretation of the mysterious records of primeval Shinar was not permitted to revise it in proof. It will be seen that I have been able to redeem my promise of editing the latest and most authoritative translations of the early Egyptian texts, and I am fortunate in having secured the help of Professor Maspero, the most eminent of living Egyptologists, for the work. I hope next year to be able to redeem my other promise of bringing out two volumes during the same year.
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