The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-11
Work Of the German Oriental Society on
the Site Of Babylon Second Palace Of
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Excavated from the
Hill Of Ruins-The Pavements Over
Which Daniel Walked-Hebrew Re-
oprts Of the Great Empire Are Being
Verified.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.


hibits made by German and French uni
versities and learned societies, and in
connection with the exhibit Of the En-
glish Royal Geographical society.
1t is hardly too much to say, from the
results now SO rapidly accommodating,
that this work promises soon to restore
to modern times q knowledge Of the life
OF the great ancient empires, Roman,
Greek, Egyptian and Babyloanian, in
of the oldest civilized life of the world
with the present will appear in the MOST
unexpected ways. 1t seems entirely pos. /,
sible that during the next ten years No
may reach conclusions from this work
as a. whole, especially from that in the
valley Of the Euphrates and the Tig1is,
which will be as astonishing to the mod.
ern world as the great discovery Of the
intimate connection between the peoples
Europe and Caucasian America.
As evidence increases and is put To-
gether piece by piece, the connection of
the whole appears, and what had before
been mere conjecture becomes certainty.
The evidence is still in a state of COM
fusion, but out Of this confusion the life
of even the Oldest times Is beginning to
manifest itself in direct connection with
our own history, as an explanation Of
our own growth and Of our
own present customs. Much Of what
is already known must for long time
remain technical, as it is being digested
by inguists and antiquarians; but on
the other hand, great deal of 1t is al
ready easily ineligible, and from cas-
lily apparent causes, Of popular interest
as great as our own national history. As
king Of Babylon, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, for
instance, is as much a reality in the edu.
cation of most Americans as any Euro
pean sovereign of the eighteenth CEN
fury, if indeed, he is not more so. Ev-
erything which belongs to the life Of
that time is SO closely connected with
our religious literature that isolated dis
| coveries' made from time to time seem
to have a sensational interest, because
Of the light they throw on subjects be-
fore only partly understood when dis
cussed everywhere in Sunday schools
and lecturerooms. ~
| According to the reports Of Professor
Delizsch of the German Oriental socie-
ty, which elucidate the photographic
and other evidence Of the results Of
digging into the "mighty hill of ru-
ins'' Of ancient Babylon, near the mod
wey, the director of the German expe-
dition, has unearthed the foundations of
what "has been irrefutably proved to
have been the second palace of Nebu-
, chadnezzar;;' by whose order Ashpenaz,
:, the chief Of his eunuchs, selected Dam
lei as one Of the children Of Judah, to
stand in the kings palace and whom
they might teach the learning and the
tongue Of the Chaldeans.
This learning, is still represented
largely in modern astronomy as it is in
the modern almanac, and this tongue
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a modern language. There is still q
wide gap to be crossed before this ID
accomplished, but DR.. Koldewey and his
associates who have been at work since
1899, have been industriously putting to-
gether fragments Of the pavements over
which Daniel may: have walked when he
was learning the cuneiform character
as it now appears in Babylonian inscrip.
tions and Assyrian 'brick books, T" And
in the same way all other fragments are
being put together.
Between the palace of Nebuohadnes.
Ear and the one he inherited from hil
street" Of Babylon, on which both pal.
aces fronted. This street, paved with
Square blocks Of limestone and red
and white brescia,' has been unearthed
and splendor Of color" which ran along
both sides of it for considerable dis
lance. ...
Here were pictured in colored tile,
"mighty lions striding forward with
right royal tread.''' They were colored
sometimes with a yellow skin AND
and Rsow T Eth
street led to the "!star aate,' the wall,
of which were richly decorated with
similar co1ored tiles, arranged to form
pictures which have now been unea1thed
with the tiles remaining as they were
shaped by the hands Of Nebuchadne1
fusion Of centuries German learning ans
patience has pieced together these an
cient pictures, 80 that modern Gamers
can take hold upon them and modern
brushes represent their colors. Ths
decorations Of the lstar gate were o.
Of convenience dragons = Ono Of thes.
has "double-tongued head, a long
) scaly body, winding tail, the foTeleGl
Of panther, hindlegs armed with gians
!; bird claws, long, straight horns on it,
head he !; an !, scorpion sting in the end O
In every notable discovery the Heb
, rev report of the life Of Babylon i
more and more fully authenticated q,
; against the Greek and even the Baby
. lonian itself. The greatest and mos
ancient Of Greek historians described
the city, when it covered, according t,
miles, or five times the space of modern
! London, with walls, according to til,
: same report, 355 feet high by 85 broad
The Chaldean historian, who in the tim,
of Alexander the Great wrote the his
tory Of which notable fragments sur
: Herodotus in passages giving some ide,
: of the yastneSs of this most snlendid a