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Show Babylonian Explorations. Prof. Herman V. Hilprecht, the Babylonian explorer, who in the spring of this year went to the east to superintend super-intend the excavations in Assyria and Babylon in the name of the university of Pennsylvania, describes In a letter just received the Important results of his Journey. He says: "The results of our researches exceed everything that has so far been known about Babylon. We found the great temple library and priest school of Nippur.which had been destroyed by the Elamites 228 B. C. The library consists of 16,000 volumes, written on stone, and covers the entire en-tire theological, astronomical, linguistic linguis-tic and mathematical knowledge of those days. We also unearthed a collection col-lection of letters and biographies, deciphered de-ciphered the inscriptions of many newly new-ly discovered tombstones and monuments, monu-ments, and espied, finally, best of all, 6,000 official documents of inestimable value to the student of ancient history. his-tory. The net result of our journey consists so far of 23,000 stone writings." |