Underwood & Underwood 

 THE BURIED CITY OF NINEVEH, WHERE THE "CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY" OF 

 ASHURBANIPAL WAS FOUND (SEE PAGE 167) 



Conditions that favor quick rise of a civilization also hasten its decay. Nebuchadnezzar 

 informs us that half a century served to reduce a temple to a state of decay if it were left 

 uncared for. That explains why the weathering- processes have left so many cities nothing 

 more than big mounds of crumbled clay. 



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