us publications of W. M. Flinders Petrie,
The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh, London, 1883; Tanis I., London, 1885;
Tanis H., Nebesheh, and Defe-nnel, London, 1887; Ten Years' Diggings,
London, 1892; Syria and Egypt from the Tel-el-Amar-na Letters, London,
1898, etc. The various works of Professor Petrie, recording his
explorations from year to year, give the fullest available insight into
Egyptian archaeology.

CHAPTER III. SCIENCE OF BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA

1 (p. 57). The Medes. Some difference of opinion exists among historians
as to the exact ethnic relations of the conquerors; the precise date of
the fall of Nineveh is also in doubt.

2 (p. 57). Darius. The familiar Hebrew narrative ascribes the first
Persian conquest of Babylon to Darius, but inscriptions of Cyrus and of
Nabonidus, the Babylonian king, make it certain that Cyrus was the real
conqueror. These inscriptions are preserved on cylinders of baked clay,
of the type made familiar by the excavation of the past fifty years, and
they are invaluable historical documents.

3 (p. 58). Berosus. The fragments of Berosus have been translated by L.
P. Cory, and included in his Ancient Fragments of Phenician, Chaldean,
Egyptian, and Other Writers, London, 1826, second edition, 1832.

4 (p. 58). Chaldean learning. Recent writers reserve the name Chaldean
for the later period of Babylonian history--the time when the Greeks
came in contact with the Mesopotamians--in contradistinction to the
earlier periods which are revealed to us by the archaeological records.

5 (p. 59) King Sargon of Agade. The date given for this early king must
not be accepted as absolute; but it is probably approximately correct.

6 (p. 59). Nippur. See the account of the early expeditions as recorded
by the director, Dr. John P. Peters, Nippur, or explorations and
adventures, etc., New York and London, 1897.

7 (p. 62). Fritz Hommel, Geschichte Babyloniens und Assyriens, Berlin,
1885.

8 (p. 63). R. Campbell Thompson, Reports of the Magicians and
Astrologers of Nineveh and Babylon, London, 1900, p. xix.

9 (p. 64). George Smith, The Assyrian Canon, p. 21.

10 (p. 64). Thompson, op. cit., p. xix.

11 (p. 65). Thompson, op. cit., p. 2.

12 (p. 67). Thompson, op. cit., p. xvi.

13 (p. 68). Sextus Empiricus, author of Adversus Mathematicos, lived
about 200 A.D.

14 (p. 68). R. Campbell Thompson, op. cit., p. xxiv.

15 (p. 72). Records of the Past (editor, Samuel Birch), Vol. III., p.