They Wrote on Clay: The Babylonian Tablets Speak Today
by Edward Chiera
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Edward Chiera was that most remarkable of men, a competent and respected scholar possessed of an ardent desire to make his research readily and entertainingly available to laymen. More remarkable, Chiera had extraordinary gifts to equal to his desire. They Wrote on Clay combines fascinatingly the fruits of sound and painstaking archeology with the natural-born storyteller's art. As transmitted by Chiera, the message of the recently discovered Babylonian clay tablets becomes an absorbing show more excursion into the common life of a vanished civilization. Few will read They Wrote on Clay without becoming infected with something of Chiera's love for the rich archeological lore of the ancient Near East. show lessTags
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Originally published in 1939, this book contains an assessment of the historical evidence provided by ancient Babylonian cuneiform tablets. The text is accompanied by a number of photographs of the tablets, as well as of important archaeological sites and Babylonian artifacts.
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Trinity College Booklist (1951): Class Four, History
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- They Wrote on Clay: The Babylonian Tablets Speak Today
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- 1938
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- Babylon
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- Anthropology, Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 913.358 — History & geography Geography & travel Travel to Specific Places Antiquities of ancient countries Mesopotamia and Iranian Plateau to 637
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- DS69.5 .C5 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Asia History of Asia Iraq (Assyria, Babylonia, Mesopotamia) Antiquities
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