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Show BABYLONIAN EXPLORATIONS, Discovery ef irel Temple Library ml City of Hipper. Prof. Hllprerht of the University of Pennsylvania, the Babylonian explorer, explor-er, haa discovered the Oreat Temple library of the anrlent city of Nippur, which waa deatroyed by the Elumnltee In the year 228 B. C. For eleven years the profi-asor haa been exploring tha mounds of ancient Nippur, the city that antedated Babylon by centurlea a th capital of Babylonia. Within th paat year he haa found among thoae prehistoric rulna the library of the Temple of Nippur. Thla la the first Babylonian temple library that baa ever been discovered, and It contains the oldest and most Important records of the earliest civilisation of which even an echo haa come down to our own age. Already 18.000 volumes have been taken from the ruins, and It la expected that many mqre thousands will be recovered. Inscribed on clay tablets In the cuneiform characters which the explorations of Nineveh and Egypt have made fnmlllar to archaeological archaeo-logical students, these literary works ft men who lived 6.000 yeara before the Christian era began Include dictionaries, dic-tionaries, architectural plans," historical histori-cal and chronological data, legal and commercial as well as religious literature, liter-ature, that bear witness to the "form and pressure of time" In which Abra-, hnm lived. They also ahow, aaya Prof. Hllprerht. that age before the reputed appearance of Adam man waa not only (.listing but that developed a high state of civilisation, comparable In all Ita easentlal points with that which we oiraelvea posoess. |