Archibald Henry Sayce (1845-1933) became interested in Middle
Eastern languages and scripts while still a teenager. Old Persian
and Akkadian cuneiform had recently been deciphered, and popular
enthusiasm for these discoveries was running high when Sayce began
his academic career at Oxford in 1869. This 1894 work, published by
the Religious Tract Society, is an introduction for a popular
readership to the world of ancient Assyria. Beginning with the
geography of Mesopotamia and with the early archaeological
discoveries in the region, Sayce next describes the decipherment of
the cuneiform inscriptions and tablets, and the knowledge gained
from them, especially about the history of the region, and
government and organisation, before describing religion,
literature, and what can be deduced about everyday life. An
appendix gives weights and measures, lists of kings and gods, and a
chronological table linking events known from the archaeological
record to accounts in the Old Testament.
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