Category: History - Ancient
§ 1. TEMPLES 239 § 2. CIVIL ARCHITECTURE 246 § 3. TOMBS 253 § 4. PHŒNICIAN SCULPTURE 262 § 5. CYPRIOTE SCULPTURE 269 § 6. PHŒNICIAN AND CYPRIOTE POTTERY 277 § 7. PHŒNICIAN GLASS 283 § 8. BRONZES AND ORNAMENTS 288 § 9. ENGRAVED STONES 294
The progress of oriental archæology leads us from one surprise to another. Year after year discoveries are made in rapid succession, which we watch with breathless interest as t...
17. CHAPTER VIII.The Phœnicians, established on the coast of northern Syria, were not simply the agents of commerce; they also carried the art of the great Asiatic civilisations to all the coast...
10. CHAPTER I.The extensive region of Western Asia to which the Greeks gave the name of Mesopotamia was already, at the period which lies farthest back among the memories of mankind, the cent...
11. CHAPTER II.Assyria, because she lies nearer to the mountains than Chaldæa, and because the use of stone, without ever being exclusive, was more frequent in northern than in southern Mesopo...
16. CHAPTER VII.Palestine, which unites Syria to Egypt, was inhabited by numerous Semitic and Canaanitish tribes which have left us very meagre remains of their art. Like that of the Hittites,...
14. CHAPTER V.The most ancient[52] monuments of Persia date from no earlier period than the reign of Cyrus (B.C. 549-529). If any Persian art existed in the previous epoch, when the country w...
12. CHAPTER III.The brilliant period of Chaldæan statuary, which reached the apogee of its development in the monuments of Tello, came to an end with the fall of the petty principalities which...
13. CHAPTER IV.The causes which impeded the development of pottery in primitive Chaldæa had the same unhappy influence on Assyrian pottery and on Chaldæan pottery in the age of Nebuchadnezzar....
15. CHAPTER VI.The name of Hittites (Khatti, Kheta) appears simultaneously in the Bible, the hieroglyphic documents, and the cuneiform texts. It is given to populations of different origin who...
9. CHAPTER IX.§ 1. M. DE MORGAN’S MISSION IN SUSIANA 299 § 2. CHRONOLOGY OF THE RUINS ACCORDING TO RECENT DISCOVERIES 303 § 3. THE PRINCIPLES OF BUILDING 313 § 4. STONE SCULPTURE 316 § 5. BRO...
8. CHAPTER VIII.§ 1. TEMPLES 239 § 2. CIVIL ARCHITECTURE 246 § 3. TOMBS 253 § 4. PHŒNICIAN SCULPTURE 262 § 5. CYPRIOTE SCULPTURE 269 § 6. PHŒNICIAN AND CYPRIOTE POTTERY 277 § 7. PHŒNICIAN GLASS...
4. CHAPTER IV.5. CHAPTER V.7. CHAPTER VII.1. CHAPTER I.2. CHAPTER II.6. CHAPTER VI.3. CHAPTER III.