Volume 1

A history of Babylonia and Assyria / [R.W. Rogers] ; rev., largely rewritten, and illustrated.

  • Robert William Rogers
Date:
[1915], ©1915
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    With these pictures of the great Persian monu- mentS; as they now are, before our eyes, and with these little hints concerning our present knowledge of their origin, we may turn to trace the long and at times romantic story of their exploration. In the Middle Ages this land of Persia became full of interest for various rea¬ sons. It had an important commerce with Eu¬ rope, and that naturally drew men of trade from Europe into its extensive plateaus, that were reeking with heat in summer, and equally un¬ comfortable in the bleak cold of winter. The commercial contact of Persia led, also, most naturally to diplomatic intercourse of various kinds with European states, and this intercourse gradually made the land known in some measure to the West. The earliest European, at present known to us, who visited the great terrace at the foot of London, 1872, vol. ii, pp. 148-196, and Jackson (A. V. Williams), Persia Past and Present, New York, 1906, p. 309, ff. I have also consulted and compared the following, A. J. Booth, The Discovery and Decipher¬ ment of the Trilingual Cuneiform Inscriptions, London, 1902. Flandin, Eugene et Coste, Pascal, Voyage en Perse pendant I84O/4I, 6 vols. Paris, 1843-1854. Andreas, F. C., und Stolze, Franz, Persepolis, Die achaemenidischen und sasanidischen Denkmdler und Inschriften, 2 vols. Berlin, 1882 [with fine photographic illustrations]. Dieulafoy, Marcel, If art antique de la Perse, 5 vols., Paris, 1884 [with beautiful illustrations, surpassing those of Stolze]. Sarre, Friedrich, und Herzfeld, Ernst, Iranische Felsreliefs. Aufnahmen und Untersuchungen von Denkmdlern ans Alt- und Mittelpersischer Zeit. Text und Tafeln, Berlin, 1910 [with superbly reproduced photographs of both Persepolis and Naksh-i Rustam, which surpass all the preceding]. Weissbach, F. H., Die Keilinschriften am Grabe des Darius Hystaspis. Ahhandlungen der philologiscli-historischen Klasse der Konigl. Sdchsischen GeseUschaft der Wissenschaften. Band xxix, I. I.,eipzig, 1911.