it seems, has now yielded up most of its treasures. Land of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers is concerned. Zenith at least in so far as the culture. clouds will undoubtedl)' be dispelled b\' later researches and it will depend on the results of future excavations whether the sun will reach Over the Orient, but though the morning-sun has appeared, it Some of these very often hides itself behind dark clouds. The darkness has been lifted, thanks to untiring work of Oriental scholars in Europe and America, who have worked process of decay
miserable fragments There were onh' fragments by which posterity could behold the ancient world. When the Greeks entered that country and wrote down their cursory notices about the land and its people. writers,īab\-lonia, Assyria, Asia Minor, Syria and Arabia had been hidden awa>' fate and Egypt had alread>' undergone a They understood only that The treasures of which was similar to their own culture. Of their foreign way of thinking, lack with the ps}'chology of the Oriental and their to inability to master the Oriental languages were little fitted become absolutely safe guides. whole of Western Asia and Egypt were like an immense field of ruins !>'ing in impenetrable silence, and the little we knew about it came from the pen of a few Greek and Roman
Little was known about the ancient Near had been transmitted by unreliable hands moreover, most of it came from a time which itself w^as much later than the period in which the ancient Oriental nations Only a few decades ago the pla>'ed an all-important role. Die Vereinigten Staaten von Nord-Amerika
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