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THOUGH scarcely a book to attract the general reader, Dr. Koldewey's account of the German excavations on the mounds which have for ages entombed the remains of Babylon the Great, is a work of considerable importance for all who are interested in the archaeology of the Old Testament. This, as perhaps is not generally known in England, is still a growing science; and the worst thing that can be said of the German Expedition to Babylonia is that, after so many years of patierit and persistent spadework on one of the most promising sites in the world, it has not, yet succeeded in unearthing anything of Wgher; historical or religious value than is recorded in the volume before us. Nothing extraordinary has hitherto been found; no great literary monument, no document of supreme religious moment, nothing that lends decisive help towards the settlement of any one of the unsolved problems of history or chronology. How much more fortunate in this respect were the pioneering labours of Layard and George Smith and Botta at Nineveh, of Rassam at Sippara, of De Sarzec at Tello, of De Morgan and Scheil at Susa!
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BALL, C. The Resurrection of Babylon 1 . Nature 95, 292–294 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095292a0
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