Show early lirly trad the eari earliest lest evidence of peaceful tad und employment Is to be found in the inscriptions script ions of 0 wady el Mag harah barah valley adf 1 the cewe in the desert tle serl tho mines in this country from which the egyptians obtained cafek or turquoise IS whence jhc nce the region was called matka 0 were wordeal in the time of blath king of 0 tho the dynasty whom tablets still remain carved on the and copper is also believed to have been thence obtained the dato date of 0 this monarchy Is very uncertain it biml lia i been placed as early na as 13 C but the method by which scholars endeavored to ascertain such dates la is open to criticism sinco since it supposes an average den iden i of thirty years for each king which i 6 71 muc 1 too 60 gia 1 i s it U yo com pare uie average III later times vines when the regnal regual years are exactly recorded seno however cannot hae have hied lived mach much later than aw B D C about the same time the great conqueror who choso whoso name la is usually read as gudea had established his capital on the low lower er tigris and had bad conquered northern syria whence lie fie took cedar wood for the building of his temples he ile states in an inscription recently discovered at tell loh that the diorite in III which his statues were hewn hew n came from front maganna ma gan na the land of the wall and the e evidence of other texts shows clearly that the country so called was Sinal the term answers to the he ile brew shur the wall and in addition to this statement geologists assure us that the material used for the statues esthe is the came same diorite found in the S peninsula at this very early pe period therefore the egyptian and tho the mongol appear to hive have met in the Sinal tle region in times of peace and the stone from the quarries was transported over the distance of 1 1200 1 miles eastward to the tigris scottish review |