Babylonian Historical-Literary Texts

Download or read book Babylonian Historical-Literary Texts written by Albert Kirk Grayson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1975-12-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Assyriologists were lured to Babylonian studies by the light which cuneiform text shed on ancient history and the Bible, and for later scholars this is still the attraction. The Age of Discovery is not past, and one can still read literature that has been unseen by the eyes of man for millennia. There are myriads of tablets lying in the ancient ruins of Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey, waiting for the excavator's spade; in museums there are quantities of inscriptions that have not yet been made public.