Show PHYSICAL ditc itc ault of a exploration correlates a bible story during the last few years the work of arcivolo arch volo cical exploration in babylonia babelonia Baby lonia has been almost entirely confined to the laborers of ane americal Ame expedition who have been engaged for several years in ahr th systematic exploration of the great mound of niffer in central babylonia babelonia Baby lonia the site of the ancient city eipur and to the partially resumed worl work of it 11 de barzee at tello the ancient Lagg hagash sli the A lie discoveries made mad e by bv i these explore is ts have been oftener of general al importance but the they chiefly related to the earliest dove days of the chaldean empire as far back as deais before the christian era important as these discoveries areas fu furn 1 n ibeling us the material by which to study the dawn of civilia civilization civilisation tion in chaldea there has always been a desire that it we e should obtain some inscribed record db ii possible historical inscriptions of the period of the new babylonian empire 13 C especially in the reigns of JI I 1 I 1 and Nabo with the except exception ton of the babao lonian chronicle of the reign of the latter monarch and a few historical tori call notices in his bis cylinder in inscriptions script ions we have but little indication of historical reco records rods A discovery of the greatest importance has just been made by father mcbell who has for sometime fomo lime beer eipl exploring ring in babelonia babylonia Eaby Baby lonia in ili the i mound one ot of the pru prin cipal heaps of ruin rui in tho the center of babylon 3 a bylon lie has die discovered covered a long inscription of Nabo tho the last of the rab ionian kings 13 C 5 5 which cont contains airia a mass of history and other oilier data which will be of the greatest value to students of this important period of baby 1 ionian I 1 a history oth the monument in question is a small stella of diorite the upper part of which is broken inscribed with eleven columns of wr writing itina and a d winch which appears to nave have licen fever erected carlein early in the kiras kings reign it resembles in some me measure asure tile the celebrated india house of but is ig much more full fall of hi callei its if value may be estimated when it is ir stated that it contains a record ol of the hie war of revenge conduct id od by the Bb babylonians lins and their njane andian allies allie s against asaria Ai syria ria for the destruction of tile the city of nache rib in IS C an account of the election and coro coronation natio a 0 of r abon idu in C D C ana ami the wonderful ond erful dream in which cebu appeared to him as vell ell as an account of the restoration of the temple of the moon ol of god at charran Kh arran accompanied by a record which enables us to t 0 fix the date of the so called invasion there is also a valuable reference ence to the murder of by his son in in tebet C D C the account of the dream is incomplete in but it is mott important as showing the implicit belief which these babylonian Daby lonian kings king s had in porte portents tits by dreams and it is ia al sea so a remarkable conformation of daniel in regard to the dream of zar there are many other matters referred to in t thein hein the he in i eption which are oaths of the greatest interest especially the portion relating to the apportionment of the temple revenues london times |