826 LVENING DISCOURSES. 



whole land bridge between Asia and Europe. The long survival and great 

 extension of Hittite influence in Syria has been illustrated by the excavations at 

 Sinjerli and Sakje Geuzi, and by recent discoveries in the basin of the Middle 

 Euphrates on both sides of the river. But an immense field remains to be 

 explored, and other important sites must be thoroughly examined, notably Car- 

 chemish, Marash, and Malatia. When even one of these is dug according to the 

 best modern methods a flood of light will be thrown on Hittite archaeology; and 

 with the help which the decipherment of the non-Babylonian Boghaz Keui tablets 

 will afford to the decipherment of the Hittite inscriptions, already phonetically 

 interpreted in no small measure by Sayce, the study of the Hittite civilisation will 

 take its place in the field of scientific history. 



