| Show N L N wr L 1 F fie 4 i i Ir f hA rA C x P r t r r rr r t t tt r ri A f M Ml r r ii aL tir 34 Ao i l h q rr r 6 2 r x t i i. i t ti r rk i gY y k r f j S r rt rr t r r r r r r a k y S a r l s Y Jt J y t JY i 7 w r f A 6 sr 1 1 X J. J r Y R 1 r n j 7 U UJ J Ferdinand Aa s q Celebrated ebra Picture of Prin an an Egyptian Gazing at Babylon 1 J l ll t 4 t I nil r Figure of a Monarch on ona ona ona a Babylonian Tomb i L Li 1 1 f 1 lo Y GJ r 7 F FI FP Fr Ft r t I P Oi c 1 ll Figures from Brick Kr Caskets i S 7 l. l r C 7 r r r r J Ie 1 Fl 1 I. I I 1 Z Zt I 1 a t t v J w r i iI I r HE of Babylon re being revealed to the world as the culmination of more mort than 15 years cars of painfully slow exploration o by Dr Rob Robert ert nt German whose whose work has hag had the cordial s support of or the Kaiser Kaisor and whose story of the wonderful wonderful wonderful won won- finds Is given to us through the the a agency ncy of ot a great English publishing publishing publishing pub pub- lishing house What mess message ge she seid to us today when the word Babylon Is so much used In connection connection tion Lion with the luxurious life of the worlds world's great capitals Is one of or warning as to the tho penalty that time Limo Imposes on effete and pleasure pleasure-be- be besotted peoples for she speaks from the depths of ot a desert rubbish heap out of which have flashed things of rare beauty and stark melancholy shapes th the ghosts of v vanished y glory How powerful must be the appeal to the tho Imagination of ot a pilgrim from froID rain the west standing for Cor the thc first time In the great chamber of ar's ars feast gaunt Jaunt and grim as the Interior pf If If a gigantic skull Ur Dr Koldewey f styled as an excavator of extraordinary extraordinary extraordinary equanimity and extraordinary patience presents a picture of the tho storied place In the cold dispassionate dispassion ate tite language of the scientific d deer delver r H but between the lines we 0 may glimpse the color and glitter the pomp of pride and power the barbaric prodigality prodigality prod prod- and the sensual intoxication which dominated all like the spirit of wine Inc To UTo the south lies the greatest chamber of ot the citadel the throne I r Ii i room room room-ot of the the Babylonian kings It Ills Ills' Is IsEo Iseo eo clearly marked m out for this purpose pur pur- pose pos that no reasonable doubt can bo boo felt as as to its having been used for an audience chamber If one should desire desire de de- de- de sire to localize the scene of or banquet he can surely place place place-it it with complete accuracy In Inthis i this Immense room It is 17 metres broad metres-broad broad and 52 62 metres long The walls on the longest longest long long- longest est side are arc 1 six metres thick considerably con in excess of ot those at the ends end and leads us to suppose that tb they supported a barrel vaulting of which however there thero is no proof A great central door and two equally Important side doors open upon the court Immediately opposite site Fite the main door in the back wall wallIs walls Is s a doubly recessed niche in which doubtless the throne st stood oct so that i Af r r EiT f l J w m T l i dm yf i r- r j I l rS 1 S yr rr r r i 3 m i- i ri fn T r i Hf Y Yd I d l ky I r d f I r r 1 e 7 i r i-r n g I m I pran jy ji ll ny fT-ny ti i in f v m rr t tr tt t r t 7 I t e 4 1 is r 1 j t 1 D 1 t I V r I r- r Remarkable Revelations t. t j from Scientific f Resulting U c 1 n 1 ir R I. I Study of Ruins Lonn Long Lon f. f it i- i t r t 0 J IT Buried S n CO t d tilt i j M MI a I I I J 1 the Guilty Glorie of the Gorgeous Palaces o of tn 1 c tl R Is Great King 4 M 4 r. r and an Lavish a Marvels of i Architecture r J A I u ur r y gag S 'S r r iI j ft 41 P A tr a r chit chitI I b ate r Ctr i ivy 4 M r s F a rr Ly YC M i TILl h y n. n r J Jf r f v 1 r i 1 5 r 7 1 11 I y r l k Rr r rt r f fI i fi I tiA r I- I H 4 Vf r Nas b C- C 17 t IMn I r. r Co rl Y 1 1915 51 by hv A. A Co T Y 0 n 1 t An Alabaster Figure Unearthed Unearthed Un Un- at Babylon Babylo and on the left of ot the Dragon 1 Babylon Frequently Rep on on the Walls The Lion ol of Babylon Prominently Prominently Placed on the Palaces Now Revealed by Excavation the king could be be visible 4 to those who stood In the court The pave pave- pavement melt ment does not consist In the usual manner of or a single layer of or brick butof but ef of at least six sir which were werd laid In asphalt and thus formed ormed a homogeneous homogeneous platform which rested on a projecting ledge built bunt out from the walls alls What vey Koldewey and his staff start have been digging for tor 15 16 years says D. D G. G Hogarth the distinguished Eng lisle lish traveller In the east seems all to be of or time or later What he has revealed is the splendor of II the the enormous mass of his palace the sacred wa way which led from the Ishtar Gate with wilh Us Its beautiful enamelled brick decorations decora decora- decorations of bulls griffins and unicorns unicorn to Lo the Temple of Bel the remains of this temple and that of the Ishtar as they thEr were In the sixth century B. B C C. The revelation of nab Babylon lon already al nl already ready effected is enough to stir an any maws mans Imagination Imagination- rT r-J-rT L r iC tT r r 1 4 S rI PiL 1 Q t These Brick Are Pages of a a Book Written in the Days Pays of 1 u s ra o 5 r vt r rr F r rr 1 ti r. r 0 i- i if 1 l fI I. I f to r rI I t 1 t i f Ir l 1 i I fr ih i i i 1 9 k F I. I it r j f if j Ij I t 1 f t r i I 1 J. J I I T-P T a C. C J t I IJ t r tr ii i I to 1 r w 1 I. I t c n t r I 1 r SS I. I Two Eastern Towers To ers of the ilie Famous Ishtar Gate J |
