The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-03-13
THE RUINS OF NINEVEH.

nTJH nITTzTn ON NTTATHTrVITU
IilE hCIINO Vt NINH HF Ell.
Translated expressly 1Sf nne me Mead rom te Revue
Isitnot singular that. in period when one doubts
every thing matter the most contestible has been
received without criticism-the exhumat;on of a,
ctv but scarcely two centuries after The deluoe
No, lope, ago !, WAS an on;n;on e,epsraIv adntted
that pe,rIv ali the monuments d;ecovs,ed in F,,vn,
extended hack n The fine of Pbaraob one forge,s
the succeSsivs do,pina,;onx f The pers;,rs Greek.
and Rom,ns a, s;ngle stride one Is,nsd ovor a,
interval renu,ed barren score of centuries n ar.
rive .t ,I,s Pb,,,oic enocb which alone or,b, IN
have prodnced the ,vonder, of ari The least stone
with fe,y bieror,lvnb;ca inscrrt;o,z ,,x he ,,r
Of a Pharaoh as in France the volpar attribute to
c.. a, 49,, II, p ...t:-t Al. :.
o'"a' "'' 'ne o'u 'o"H'' 'i'e " VI winch 'Hey
are ignorant phe may Teach the controversy
which was raised upon the discovery Of the famous
zodiac of DenJorah. 1t was heresy to doubt only
tho b;b sr,io;,,.o .oe ,t; Zodiac mil H., ,,,,,.n,
- -
"ie o'ie saw III an lPt'oii VI tne
that this pretended Pharaoic monument was siu
ply Of Iiberius. We very much fear that the ilu-
sion which has been held reIaty. 10 ancient Eqvpf
.,, 10 .1 , L. :; .I :. II -,
-' ~ ~ - - ' ' :, ~ = s. 80 - ~ ~ - 80 = =.
many th'hgs may De explained when one considers
the research oil man! No one would be interested
the moupds oC Kborabad If the m,,,;c.l name Of
N;n.,,al -. -, ,,,..IaJ,. =. IL, t.lIt-.
~ ,'i''' -" oa,o ~, =
soiioi'ouS aoou' 'ue runs OIL APPS OF Nefess 1heSe
cities were, nevertheless, situated very nearly in
the same places where Messrs Botta and Gayard
have commenced their excavations WHY have
tbev ,ot boon tbonrbt of2 II bao,,,so ,,,, Iaa,,
49, LiLIiosi l',I
t"o'' o'0'D' names 'eiNi'ii''enoeo Vi o"i Youth
and that perfume OF antiquity which is the soul OF
antIqtarianis'n' ne towns ana clties IN runs,
which are encountered on the banksoi the EuPhra-
tes ana llgrls'are without distinction the works OF
Nnnrod' the grpho-soh- OF Noah' IL Is steadily
maintained by ule Arabs, and upon this point we
cite as a witness NiF.7Iayard iiiHlset'
Qn the following day, says this traveller, " on
- sis Saiip % sne sheAi
,,.5 ,b;r Lss ~ ,,lIo n ,,roao,;,S -
thew drew up. Go quickly to the r,ns' sad one
of them for Nimrod himself is about to be found.
BY Allah! It is wonderful, but ii is true. We
nave sen nun WITH our 1--WE eyes: mere IS OUT
,bs lIoned to,yaJ, ,La; t5. ,;,L,,
another word. Arriving at the ruins 7 descended
into the excavation, and found the worknen who
had already preceded me, assembled round num-
per oi pashe.s ana cloaks. At the moment when
t H,a,,t ,b A. H. III " M a'e
which they had hastily constructed. discovered to
my view an enormous head OF man, completely
carved IN the aabaster OF the country the rest Of
Tue Doay 1 was sun under ground. | saw at the
5nse nmrss 'Hst ,;, s hod a Ue,Uns 70 opS 81
which had been found at Scbownbad II was al
mirably preserved. The expression was calm and
majestic, and the outline of its features denote
knowledge OF art which one would scarcely expect
70 inu ~ ~ tle ~olhs o. 80 ee'''oe period
this ignre was that of Nimrod bimsslf Ar,iru..
r;,ns th;nL ,h., !, i nI, or ~ -
.on RI, ,vbv NAV moi ,hs son ,,,h -, ~. R;hI,
90 LANDS far his 6lisl r;.tv have b.d i; b;- r,l..,
,be statue oe his f.tber2 Wh,.vor !, -, ~,
arc de,igb,sd 10 500 that ReJop;ns .nd i..d,,,;
clans are per(ectlv ayreeJ az IN lis .r,o,;,
Nimrod is M, the onlv personao,o o : ~,
Koran which borrows so LARGELY f,o,n The R;hlo
The Mnssumans also show us stu not far from, tbe
rnips Of NimroJ. the tornbs ,f Abraham David .,I
many other venerable relics, upon which prorane
authors have kent an obstinate silence After Tho
battle of Qunoxa (4OO years before our eraA Xeno-
phon, in the retreats along the Tpris indicates with
care all the cities even the villages, in ruin bv
which he passed--but did not once name NineveI,
although he must have traversed its site Perbans
he wished to reserve for postcrity the honor of This
discovery. For the true believer there should be
neither Medes nor Persians, because the Koran
that oracle Of religion and hstory--has made no
mention of them. The natives jealous followers
of the Prophet, readily show to the traveller the
place where Noah's Ark rested; but they abso-
lutely know nothing of the battlefield where fell
the Empire of Darius. All this is understood ac-
cordng to the spirit of Mahometansm. But that
which is understood less, is that andquarians
tell us OF ruins nearly contemporary with the deiuge
exactly as do the Mussulmans.
The disputes of antlquarians should be deter
mined like those Of philosophers The for and
against must be eAainlneu-"eigh on each side the