Show C THE OLDEST BANK SANK T P Ps Pos Weekly There was a kind ind of public record office attached to the palace and tem tern temple temple pie at Nineveh in Ih which It I was cus customary customary tomary ternary to deposit important legal and other documents such as contracts for agreements for the purchase and sale of ot property marriage settlements wills wis etc Among these there were discovered official statements as to the history and transactions of o the emi eminent eminent nent banking house of at Nine Nineveh Nineveh ehi Assyrian chronology proves that these refer to a date about 2300 years before the Christian ChrIstan era when Abra Abraham Abraham Abraham ham dwelt at Ur Tr of the th as Is stated In Genesis We may therefore claim for this firm the reputation of at being the oldest bank in the world at least of which we have any record or orare orare orare are likely to have The accounts ac are very voluminous and cover the trans transactions transactions actions of o five generations and of ot the house from father to son The firm fin grew gew rapidly in Importance during this period during which they attained great wealth for they had succeeded in securing from the king the appointment of ot collectors of taxes i a position which In the east always alwa s leads to fortune They The afterward framed the revenue for several of or the Assyrian ran provinces with very ve great get gain to the firm |