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BABYLONIAN LECTURES.The remaining topics of Professor Lyon's lectures on "Babylonian Books...
Yesterday afternoon Professor Lyon lectured on the decipherment of the Babylonian books. He said that had Babylonian writings not been found accompanied by parallel translations in some simpler language, they could perhaps never have been deciphered. Such translations were furnished by the records of the Achaemenian kings of Persia. The first problem was therefore to read the old Persian after which the reading of the Babylonian was sure to follow. Inscriptions from Persepolis furnished the material. After the unsuccessful attempts of various scholars, Georg Friederich Grotefend, of Hanover, in 1802, found the key, by applying a formula...
...MONDAY.Babylonian Books. Their language and script. Illustrated lecture. Professor Lyon. Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
...FRIDAY.Babylonian Books. General view of their contents. Illustrated lecture. Professor Lyon. Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
Professor Lyon will deliver, this afternoon, in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, his second lecture on Babylonian Books. The subject of today's lecture will be "The decipherment of the Babylonian Books by Grotefend and Rawlinson," and the lecture will be made doubly interesting by photographic slides and copies of these books...