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Records of the past; being English translations of the Assyrian and Egyptian monuments (Volume VIII)

Records of the past; being English translations of the Assyrian and Egyptian monuments (Volume VIII)

Birch, Samuel

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ArchaeologyAncient History GeneralFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 9353800374
ISBN13: 9789353800376
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jul 1 2019
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Stone and clay still speak. Empires leave receipts. Volume VIII of Records of the Past gathers Samuel Birch's English renderings of translated ancient inscriptions from Assyria and Egypt, letting you trace voices preserved in monuments, stelae, and tablets. Each piece points back to a real object, from palace reliefs to tomb walls. Created at the height of Victorian era archaeology, this archaeological text collection belongs to the moment when newly deciphered scripts were rewriting history, and Birch helped bring that revolution into English. It stands as a landmark primary source anthology: assyrian cuneiform texts alongside egyptian hieroglyphic inscriptions, drawn from ancient Egypt monuments and the wider world of ancient mesopotamia records. Royal proclamations, temple dedications, legal formulae, and memorial texts sit side by side, illuminating ancient Near East history without modern paraphrase. Read for sheer curiosity, or keep close as an egyptology reference book and assyriology study sourcebook, where names, titles, gods, and place-lists reward slow browsing. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure. Set beside modern research, it also reveals how evidence first entered Western reading culture, making it as intriguing for the history of scholarship as for antiquity itself in the nineteenth century. For museum-lovers, students, and classic-literature collectors, this volume offers a direct, durable encounter with the documentary past, and a foundational companion to the enduring series known simply as the Records of the Past.

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