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which carried them across Arabia to the Upper 

 Nile, and ultimately caused the name Cush or 

 Kesh to be almost exclusively applied to the 

 Ethiopians of Africa. Now is this history, or mere 

 legend ? 



The answer of archaeology is not doubtful. We 

 have in the earliest monuments of Chaldea evidence 



HEAD ILLUSTRATING THE MOST ANCIENT TYPE OF 



CUSHITE TURANIAN, FROM TEL-LOH (after de Sarzec). 

 The cap is perhaps an imitation of the antediluvian 

 shell-caps, like that of the ' man of Mentorie. ' 



that there was a pre-Semitic population, to whom, 

 indeed, it is believed that the Semites who invaded 

 the country owed much of their civilisation. A recent 

 writer has said that * outside of the Bible we know- 

 nothing of Nimrod,' but others see a trace of him in 

 the legendary hero of Chaldean tradition, Gisdubar 

 or Gingamos, while others think that, as Na-marod, 



