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VIEW FROM MOSUL ACROSS THE TIGRIS TO NINEVEH, MESOPOTAMIA 



It is only three-quarters of a century ago that the first real exploration work was begun in Mesopotamia, 



under P. E. Botta, stationed at Mosul, as a French consular agent. The announcement of his discovery 



of a portion of an Assyrian building in Nineveh, filled with monuments of the past, created tremendous 



excitement. Since then, the pick and spade of explorers, French, German, British and American, and the 



Eatient toil of the decipherer, have thrown a flood of light upon the history of these ancient peoples, and the 

 iatory of civilization has been carried back to 4000 years before Christ. 



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