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Page 46
... clay tablets or cylinders baked afterwards as used in old Babylon . The libraries in old India had books made of birch bark and palm leaves ( 1 ) as our present libraries have books of paper . They were unfortunately equally destruct ...
... clay tablets or cylinders baked afterwards as used in old Babylon . The libraries in old India had books made of birch bark and palm leaves ( 1 ) as our present libraries have books of paper . They were unfortunately equally destruct ...
Page 62
... the Sumerians , but the rectilinear pictograph of the Chaldĉan changed into a cuniform writing as the material used for writing J was soft clay written upon with a triangular - 62 [ J. B. O. R. S. The Antiquity of writing in India .
... the Sumerians , but the rectilinear pictograph of the Chaldĉan changed into a cuniform writing as the material used for writing J was soft clay written upon with a triangular - 62 [ J. B. O. R. S. The Antiquity of writing in India .
Page 63
... clay tablets discovered amongst the ruins of the ancient towns in Mesopotamia , the oldest of which is the tablet of Sargon I , who on the authority of Nabonidus , the last king of Babylon ( 550 B. C. ) , reigned about 3800 B. C. ( 1 ) ...
... clay tablets discovered amongst the ruins of the ancient towns in Mesopotamia , the oldest of which is the tablet of Sargon I , who on the authority of Nabonidus , the last king of Babylon ( 550 B. C. ) , reigned about 3800 B. C. ( 1 ) ...
Page 118
... clay coffins shaped like dish covers , as found in these cairns , was peculiar to the ancient Chaldĉan people , it is thought , and perhaps correctly , that the people buried here were descendants of men associated with the old ...
... clay coffins shaped like dish covers , as found in these cairns , was peculiar to the ancient Chaldĉan people , it is thought , and perhaps correctly , that the people buried here were descendants of men associated with the old ...
Page 134
... clay , or by unhewn blocks of stone , or by trees . So far as the district of Champaran is concerned , these two aspects of Hinduism - the animistic and the metaphysical sides thereof - exist side by side . The same town or village has ...
... clay , or by unhewn blocks of stone , or by trees . So far as the district of Champaran is concerned , these two aspects of Hinduism - the animistic and the metaphysical sides thereof - exist side by side . The same town or village has ...
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