Download or read book Mesopotamia Classic Reprint written by Martin Swayne and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Mesopotamia There is nothing to suggest that you are approaching the gateway Of the Garden of Eden When you reach the top Of the Persian Gulf, unless the sun be that Flaming Sword Which turns every way to keep the way Of the Tree of Life. Of cherubim we could see no signs. We lay motionless awaiting orders by 'wireless. Of the country before us we knew next to nothing. We did not grasp that the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Mesopotamia written by Arthur Nersesian and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Thoroughly entertaining, with an offbeat sense of humor . . . There’s a solid mystery here, underneath the goofiness” (Booklist). Things have not been going well for journalist Sandy Bloomgarten. Her job went down the drain and her marriage quickly followed. After a lengthy bender, she awakens one morning to the stark realization that she is flat broke. Nonetheless, she’s still a crack reporter, and when a tabloid offers her a freelance assignment in Memphis—just a stone’s throw from her childhood home in Mesopotamia, Tennessee—she takes it. Though sent there for one story, she winds up tracking down another: someone is killing Elvis impersonators who perform at the annual Sing-the-King festival. The few available clues lead her to several unlikely characters: a cheating local minister constantly on the make, a strange band of misfits who only cover Elvis tunes, and a small-town private eye who blew himself up along with his crystal meth lab. As Sandy’s investigation closes, she realizes that she is sitting on what could be the story of the century. The only problem is she can never reveal what she has found . . . “The immortal shadow of Elvis Presley gyrates wildly through this satiric exploration of America’s fascination with tabloid journalism.” —Publishers Weekly
Download or read book A Message From Mesopotamia Classic Reprint written by Arthur Lawley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Message From Mesopotamia My experience of America is that of the making of speeches there is no end. They are generally bad ones. Recently I was called on quite suddenly and unexpectedly to address an educated audience on "Antarctic Exploration," a subject of which I am profoundly ignorant. The result was not happy, and I was fully conscious of the sorry incoherence of my remarks. "Your speech, Sir!" said a candid listener, was like a jig-saw puzzle!" I acquit him of any intention to flatter me. The simile was apt! And now I ask myself, "Is this little written effort only another jig-saw puzzle?" Well! it is just a stitching together of leaves torn from a diary of fitful jottings. It is a bundle of odds and ends, of scraps and sketches! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Myths from Mesopotamia written by Stephanie Dalley and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 2000 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories translated here all of ancient Mesopotamia, and include not only myths about the Creation and stories of the Flood, but also the longest and greatest literary composition, the Epic of Gilgamesh. This is the story of a heroic quest for fame and immortality, pursued by a man of great strength who loses a unique opportunity through a moment's weakness. So much has been discovered in recent years both by way of new tablets and points of grammar and lexicography that these new translations by Stephanie Dalley supersede all previous versions. -- from back cover.
Download or read book The War in the Cradle of the World Mesopotamia Classic Reprint written by Eleanor Egan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The War in the Cradle of the World, Mesopotamia About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Mesopotamia and Assyria from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time written by James Baillie Fraser and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Mesopotamia and Assyria, From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time: With Illustrations of Their Natural History In the work now presented to the public, the Author has endeavoured to bring under one view all that is known of the history and aspect, moral, physical, and political, of the provinces of Mesopotamia and Assyria; and to give at the same time a sketch of the causes that have produced the revolutions of which they have been the theatre. The subject is extensive and complicated; and the difficulty of compressing the matter which it embraces into one volume was proportionally great. That all which might have been done towards the attainment of this object has really been effected, is more than the Author ventures to assert; but he can safely affirm, that no pains have been spared in collecting the most suitable materials to be found in the writings of others, as well as in applying such as have been furnished by his own acquaintance with those interesting countries. In point of fact, little original matter can be expected, unless we were to recover some of the lost works of the ancients, or to succeed in deciphering those inscriptions in the cuneiform character, which have hitherto baffled the researches of the learned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book LIBERATOR OF MESOPOTAMIA CLASSIC REPRINT written by BASIL. MATHEWS and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mesopotamia written by Canon J. T. Parfit and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-25 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Mesopotamia: The Key to the Future I have never seen it, for, under the Turkish regime, that primitive paradise was unfortunately nowhere to be found. I met, however, in Bagdad a clever impostor, a wily tobacconist, who closed up his shop and travelled extensively through Europe and America, collecting large sums of money from gullible Westerners by posing as the famous "Discoverer of Noah's Ark and the Golden Mountains of the Moon." These also I have never seen; but, apart from all spurious claims and fantastic titles, it is nevertheless true that Mesopotamia cradled the human race, nurtured it for centuries, until a new era was introduced by the Flood incidents, which are recorded not only in the Hebrew Scriptures, but also in interesting cuneiform inscriptions that have been unearthed by archaeologists in Mesopotamia. This is essentially a land of origins. The oldest sea route in the world, utilised by the first navigators of the high seas, was the Persian Gulf; and the numerous mounds at Bahrain remind us of the world's debt to the Phoenicians, who gave us the alphabet and the earliest system of weights and measures, and who originally migrated to Syria from the shores of the Persian Gulf and the ports of Mesopotamia. From this land also the Hebrew race took its rise when Abraham came from Ur of the Chaldees and settled in Canaan. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Navy in Mesopotamia written by Conrad Cato and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Navy in Mesopotamia: 1914 to 1917 In writing these historical sketches of naval work in Mesopotamia, I have been guided by the evidence of naval officers who took part in the events narrated, and in some instances I have myself been an eyewitness. In every case I have checked these unofficial accounts by referring to the official despatches, and I hope that in this way I have succeeded in guarding against inaccuracy. It must be understood that my object has been to give some slight indication of the work which has been done by the Navy in the course of the campaign; and though I have necessarily alluded to the military operations, I have made no attempt to give a complete account of any of the engagements so far as the Army was concerned in them. The sketch entitled "The Children of Kanee" was originally written as a yarn, but, inasmuch as it records an incident which actually befell one of H. M. sloops on the Tigris, I have included it among the historical sketches. As regards the short stories, their main object is to amuse the reader; but if they fail in this, they will at least give a little insight into naval life in Mesopotamia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Mesopotamian Archaeology written by Percy Stuart Peache Handcock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-09 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Mesopotamian Archaeology: An Introduction to the Archaeology of Babylonia and Assyria In addition to the chapters which deal expressly with the cultural evolution of the dwellers in Mesopotamia, two chapters are devoted to the consideration of the Cuneiform writing - its pictorial origin, the history of its decipherment, and the literature of which it is the vehicle, while another chapter is occupied with a bistori cal review of the excavations. The short chronological summary at the end obviously makes not the slightest pretension to even being a comprehensive summary it merely purports to give the general chronological order of some of the better known rulers and kings of Baby lonia and Assyria to whom allusion is made in this volume, together with a notice of some of the more sig nificant landmarks in the history of the two countries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Symbols of Prehistoric Mesopotamia Classic Reprint written by Beatrice Laura Goff and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Symbols of Prehistoric Mesopotamia Concerned primarily with the period before there were written texts, the book is not written for the philologist. In the two concluding chapters, however, I have turned to the texts of later periods to ensure that the religious ideas which seem to me to appear in the Prehistoric Period are not more highly developed than the situation in later periods warrants. While I have made my own independent translation of a few texts, usually I have relied on the best published translations I have been able to find. In some cases I have been exceedingly fortunate to have the assistance of Professor Ferris J. Stephens of Yale. The knowledge of Sumerian and Akkadian, however, has not yet progressed to a point where scholars easily agree in the reading of texts, and the translations I present, like all translations I can find, serve simply for working convenience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Marvellous Mesopotamia the World s Wonderland Classic Reprint written by Joseph Thomas Parfit and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-28 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Marvellous Mesopotamia the World's Wonderland Immediately after the outbreak of war I ventured to draw attention, by means of lectures, articles, and pamphlets, to the importance of Mesopotamia and the significance of Germany's Baghdad Railway schemes. The following pages contain the substance of my lectures, with some additional information more recently available. The different aspects of the country, its relation to current events and present-day problems, are here presented in language and style simple enough, I hope, to convey to the rising generation the impression that Mesopotamia must not be overlooked, since its settlement and development within the next fifty years will influence the whole world's future. The American Continent will probably be affected as much as the Eastern hemisphere when the bulk of Europe's food supplies, cotton, and oil reach the Mediterranean by the new railways' waterways, and pipe lines from Mesopotamia and the East. The most important world-problems as well as the most fascinating developments of human existence will be associated for a century and more with the reconstruction of the Near East. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Shadow of the Mosque written by Morris McDougall and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Shadow of the Mosque: A Tale of Occupied Mesopotamia You English know how to deal with criminals, he said smiling. There was just a touch of con descension in the voice. Stern, unrelenting justice, Wallah, that is the only way to keep down crime. They are well out of the way, those dogs, and he snapped his fingers. What was it in the eye that checked the reply on Galt's tongue? We Arabs are too lenient, you have taught us much, you English. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Notes From Nineveh written by James Phillips Fletcher and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Notes From Nineveh: And Travels in Mesopotamia, Assyria, and Syria From the great interest excited respecting Nineveh, I have been induced to collect, and throw into a narrative, the notes of two years' residence on its mighty plains, with accounts of excursions into the remotest parts of Assyria. In order to complete the record of my travels, I have added some chap ters descriptive of the countries on the route. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Ancient Mesopotamia written by A. Leo Oppenheim and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This splendid work of scholarship . . . sums up with economy and power all that the written record so far deciphered has to tell about the ancient and complementary civilizations of Babylon and Assyria."—Edward B. Garside, New York Times Book Review Ancient Mesopotamia—the area now called Iraq—has received less attention than ancient Egypt and other long-extinct and more spectacular civilizations. But numerous small clay tablets buried in the desert soil for thousands of years make it possible for us to know more about the people of ancient Mesopotamia than any other land in the early Near East. Professor Oppenheim, who studied these tablets for more than thirty years, used his intimate knowledge of long-dead languages to put together a distinctively personal picture of the Mesopotamians of some three thousand years ago. Following Oppenheim's death, Erica Reiner used the author's outline to complete the revisions he had begun. "To any serious student of Mesopotamian civilization, this is one of the most valuable books ever written."—Leonard Cottrell, Book Week "Leo Oppenheim has made a bold, brave, pioneering attempt to present a synthesis of the vast mass of philological and archaeological data that have accumulated over the past hundred years in the field of Assyriological research."—Samuel Noah Kramer, Archaeology A. Leo Oppenheim, one of the most distinguished Assyriologists of our time, was editor in charge of the Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute and John A. Wilson Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Chicago.
Download or read book With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia 1916 1917 Classic Reprint written by H. J. Blampied and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia, 1916-1917 IN writing this short account of the zud Battalion in Mesopotamia, my aim has not been to write a military history of all that was achieved; that will be the task of some one more competent to judge of merits and demerits than myself. My object has been to give an account in simple language of the two years spent by the Battalion in the Iraq, so that the children of the men of the regiment may lmow of the brave deeds and the hardships cheerfully borne on their behalf. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Mesopotamia written by Jean Bottéro and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-06-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our ancestors, the Mesopotamians, invented writing and with it a new way of looking at the world. In this collection of essays, the French scholar Jean Bottero attempts to go back to the moment which marks the very beginning of history. To give the reader some sense of how Mesopotamian civilization has been mediated and interpreted in its transmission through time, Bottero begins with an account of Assyriology, the discipline devoted to the ancient culture. This transmission, compounded with countless discoveries, would not have been possible without the surprising decipherment of the cuneiform writing system. Bottero also focuses on divination in the ancient world, contending that certain modes of worship in Mesopotamia, in their application of causality and proof, prefigure the "scientific mind."
