Underwood & Underwood 



EXCAVATORS UNEARTHING THE REMAINS OE ANCIENT BABYLON 



The citizen of a modern city would probably feel more at home in the Babylon of 5,000 years 

 ago than in medieval Europe. The average Babylonian was no wild savage, but a law-abiding 

 citizen, a faithful husband, good father, kind son, firm friend, industrious trader, or careful 

 man of business. The story of how man came again to know these ancient civilizations, of 

 how we have a more intimate knowledge of the ways of people who lived thousands of years 

 before the Christian era than we have of some who lived so recently as medieval times, 

 constitutes one of the most fascinating passages in the history of exploration. 



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