Show RECORDS OF ANTIQUITY inscriptions THAT TELL ABOUT LIFE IN FORMER AGES religious forms business methods historical events and many other things revealed by carvings in stone and metal inscriptions by no means are tho the product of modern learning the ancients left that cave leave been resurrected translated and printed not counting the epitaphs on ordinary graves ol of thousands of years ago u bach fire are not deemed worth the trouble ancient peoples Sa Saba bacans eans phoe nic ians etruscans Etrus cans Um brians babylonians As syrians germanic tribes Ibe iberians rians celts belts norse all carved their records in stone and metal paper was riot not as common in those days d Ys as now the permanent records thus left include religious forms business accounts royal proclamations and boasts of deeds accomplished epitaphs mortuary tablets altars temples aqueducts tax receipts etc evidently property was as not safe in the old days and they had the habit of writing on seals gems vases and other bricka brick a brac by way of identifying them both in this country and abroad scholars devote much of their time to deciphering these mute records ot of the past and it is quite likely that the successors to our population it if such there shall be will find information in the eliot inscriptions tor for their learned tomes in france along with other academies they have one of the inscriptions ya which is preparing books of the greek and latin relies relics by photography the experts began this job in 1881 in 1868 and huebner II the great historians projected a similar task under the berlin academy and at last accounts the savants savanis who are continuing their labors were still collecting they have published many volumes and have preserved some of 0 the extant greek inscriptions it Is a great part that the carved words of bygone ages has played in modern knowledge the finding of the rosetta stone with its identical message in both egyptian and greek provided the clew that unlocked the mysteries of the nilene deltas early history some of the languages and most of the history of asia alinor ellnor has been preserved by the same method also some years ago at ghoram on the arabian coast there was found a stone which being deciphered proclaimed according to some that the apple which eve gave to adam and thus made us all work tor for a living an apple but a pomegranate earths oldest inscription belonged to the Phoeni phoenicians Phoenicia clans ns once and was hewn out some years ago being a dedicated bronze vessel for the tem ale of baal lebanon by hiram king of the Sidon ians lans it was found in cyprus and Is now in the louvre mu seum at paris |