Underwood & Underwood 



UNEARTHING ANCIENT BABYLON FROM BENEATH THE DEDRIS OF CENTURIES 



Babylonia is covered with cities hidden by the accumulations of thousands of years. 

 And yet never was debris kinder, for it acted as a safe in which treasures of millenniums 

 lie fore Christ could be held in trust for the coming of a generation that would appreciate 

 their value, and that could correctly interpret their meanings. But for the burial from 

 human sight which time gave to the structures and relics of the ancient civilization of the 

 Euphrates and Tigris River country they would have been destroyed, even as the priceless 

 marbles of Rome were destroyed in the manufacture of lime and the magnificent structures 

 of that great city torn down to secure the iron with which the marble blocks were jointed 

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