# Fresh light from the ancient monuments

Author: Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry), 1845-1933

Genre: Category: History - Ancient

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32883

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Fresh+light+from+the+ancient+monuments+Sayce&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The object of this little book is explained by its title. Discovery after discovery has been pouring in upon us from Oriental lands, and the accounts given only ten years ago of the results of Oriental research are already beginning to be antiquated. It is useful, therefore, to take stock of our present knowledge, and to see how far it bears out that “old story” which has been familiar to us from our childhood. The same spirit of scepticism which had rejected the early legends of Greece and Rome had laid its hands also on the Old Testament, and had determined that the sacred histories themselves were but a collection of myths and fables. But suddenly, as with the wand of a magician, the a...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VII. NEBUCHADREZZAR AND CYRUS.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fresh-light-from-the-ancient-monuments-32883/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II. THE BOOK OF GENESIS.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fresh-light-from-the-ancient-monuments-32883/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI. THE ASSYRIAN INVASIONS.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fresh-light-from-the-ancient-monuments-32883/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV. THE MOABITE STONE AND THE INSCRIPTION OF SILOAM.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fresh-light-from-the-ancient-monuments-32883/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III. THE EXODUS OUT OF EGYPT.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fresh-light-from-the-ancient-monuments-32883/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fresh-light-from-the-ancient-monuments-32883/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V. THE EMPIRE OF THE HITTITES.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fresh-light-from-the-ancient-monuments-32883/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter VII. Nebuchadrezzar and Cyrus.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fresh-light-from-the-ancient-monuments-32883/chapters/1/index.md)