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Show PALACE OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR. Dr! Koldevey, German Explorer, Believes Be-lieves He Has! Found Courtyard. Dr. Koldevey has issued a very interesting in-teresting report about the progress of the excavations he -and his German colleagues are carrying on at they supposed sup-posed site of Nebuchadnezzar's palace in ancient Babylon. He says he has discovered in the south quarter of the town a square courtyard surrounded ,by walls, the southern side of which j is a very fine piece of architecture, j The wall fs faced with glazed , tiles, I which seem to have wonderfully with ! stood the ravages of time, and are artistically ar-tistically ornamented with flowers and tracery, but many of the tiles have fallen out of their places to the ground and they had to be carefully pieced together. This ha3 been successfully j done and tne result shows a beautifu' I design. The design is now on the way j to Germany. In the courtyard were also found several sev-eral bricks evidently part of a Mosaic pavement, the design of which .was composed of enamels and glass-raised work, as weil as coffins, coins, fragments frag-ments of stone inscriptions, and a broad slab on which was a picture of the Babylonian idea of hell. Dr. Koldevey considers the recent finds as fully proving that this part of the city contained what was doubtless j the finest of the Babylonian palaces, and consequently the palace of Nebuchadnezzar. Nebu-chadnezzar. Meanwhile excavations are being carried on in the business quarter of old Babylon, where in 1S74 the entire business documents of the Babylonish firm "Egibi & Son possibly possi-bly the oldest house of business of which the world holds record, to use Tennyson's phrase were dug out by-Arabians. by-Arabians. These documents unpaid bills, day books, ledgers, etc. were made of hardened clay, and the wonder won-der is that they had not crumbled away during, the course of the centuries. In any case it is clear that the unpaid bills are now snly of historic interest, for., the BabyloDion legal period of limitation lim-itation must have long expired." |