Volume VI., 18-20.

10. THE EARLIEST SEMITES KNOWN TO HISTORY:

J. F. McCurdy: History, Prophecy, and the Monuments, 2965-2966 (2888-2889).

Max Müller: The Enormous Antiquity of the East, 2966 (2889).

A. H. Sayce: Babylonian Literature, 246 (239).

"The Babylonians were … the first of the Semites to enter the arena of history, and they did so by virtue of the civilization to which they attained in and through their settlement on the lower Euphrates and Tigris." J. F. MCCURDY.

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STUDY III. Page references in first 1895 edition in parentheses.

THE LIFE OF PRIMITIVE PEOPLES; ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH.

1. GENERAL CHARACTER OF WORK OF EXCAVATION OF BURIED CITIES:

W. M. F. Petrie. The Story of a "Tell," 782 (755).

G. Smith: Assyrian Discoveries, 149-150 (143).

H. V. Hilprecht: Recent Research in Bible Lands,