Word: cyrus
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Babylonian libraries of Nebuchadnezzar and Cyrus, two of the most interesting rulers in the history of the world, are yet to be unearthed. They are, doubtless, still lying beneath the colossal ruins of Babylon. The wonderful discoveries made at Tello by M. de Sarzee, ten years ago, illustrate what may be expected from excavation at new points, and the large number of cuneiform tablets unearthed last winter in Egypt give us a new sense of the prominence of the Assyrian language for international communication in very early times. The natives of Babylonia are always digging at various points...
...very sad accident occurred last Saturday to one of the Chapel choir boys. Cyrus Furbish was riding along the street on his bicycle when he lost control of it and fell under the heels of a horse standing attached to a wagon near the sidewalk. The horse started, dragging the boy with his machine under the wheels. The boy received injuries so serious that death resulted Sunday morning...
...social and private life of the time. The material is partly baked, partly unbaked brick. These tablets were dug up by the natives and sent to London, whence they came by purchase into the possession of Harvard College. In connection with the foregoing, it may be mentioned that Dr. Cyrus Adler of Johns Hopkins announced that the National Museum at Washington is about to form a complete collection of casts and fac-similes of seals coming from Messopotanna. It is intended eventually to include cylinders, slabs and tablets in the collection...
Assyrian Readings. Subject: Cyrus according to contemporary Babylonian Sources, with References to Greek and Hebrew Accounts. Professor Lyon. Upper Boylston...
Prof. Lyon's lecture to-morrow evening on "Cyrus" will be illustrated with the stereopticon...