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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesAgha Akhlat amongst ancient appear Arabs Arban Armenian Assyrian Babylon Babylonian Baghdad banks bas-reliefs Bedouins beneath Bitlis bricks British Museum bronze building bulls called camels captives caravan carried Cawal Yusuf centre chambers Chap chariot chief Christian crossed cuneiform cylinder described Desert discovered district Eastern edifice Egyptian encampment entrance Euphrates excavations feet figures fragments head Hillah hills Hincks Hormuzd horsemen horses inhabitants inscriptions Jebours journey Khabour Khorsabad king Kouyunjik Kurdish Kurdistan Kurds lions mare Mesopotamia miles Mohammed Emin Monuments of Nineveh Mosul mound mountains Mussulman Nestorian Nimroud Nineveh north-west palace ornaments Pasha Persian plain principal probably ravine Rawlinson relics remains river rock rode round ruins scarcely sculptures Sennacherib Shammar sheep Sheikh side Sinjar slabs stone stream Suttum tablets Tekrit temple tents Tigris tomb town tribe Turkish valley village walls warriors whilst workmen Xenophon Yezidis Popular passagesPage 291 - I have seen at Medina and Tayf locust shops where these animals were sold by measure. In Egypt and Nubia they are only eaten by the poorest beggars.' ' The Arabs, in preparing locusts as an article of food, throw them alive into boiling water with which a good deal of salt has been mixed. After a few minutes they are taken out and dried in the sun; the head, feet, and wings are then torn off; the bodies are cleansed from the salt and perfectly dried, after which process whole sacks are filled with... Page 525 - And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria. Page 401 - ... the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. Page 544 - And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life. Page 99 - Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: 19. That say, Let Him make speed, and hasten His work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it! Page 120 - Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and shewed them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not. Page 550 - The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house. Page 532 - And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went into the palace of the king's house and burnt the king's house over him with fire, and died... Page 135 - And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea : for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison. Page 450 - And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen ; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground. References to this bookFrom Google ScholarAncient Heavy Transpor Methods and AchievemenRobert F Hei - Science Traditions of Archeological Research in the near EastAbdullah H Masry - 1981 - World Archaeology Alexander the Great and the Hanging Gardens of BabylonJulian Reade - 2000 - Iraq References from web pagesJSTOR: The Site and Ancient City of Browning's Love among the Ruins The Project Gutenberg ebook of The Religion of Babylonia and ... 第十一章历史上所应验的预言 Bibliographic information
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