The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-01-02
BABYLONIA AND lSSYRIA.
INTERESTING LECTURE By Ed
GAR JAMES BURNES, Pr. D.

At Y. NJ. c. A. Sunday Afternoon-rs ar s
Account of the Remarkable Discover
les at Bismya and the Most Recon
Result of the Excavations.
DIR. Edgar j. Barnes lectured at the
Y. M. c. A. mems meeting Sunday af-
ternoon on "The Oldest city in the
world" 1t was a very interesting lee
ture and also very important. because
It referred to discoveries made in the
excavation that prove statements in
the Bible. DR.. Banks first showed
picture of the written permission of
the Sultan, of Turkey, which was tediA
Gus and expensive to get to carry on
the excavation. Then he showed pica
ture of Busreh at this mouth of the III
girls and Euphrates rivers on the Per-
sian Gulf, thought to be the ancient
Bozrah, referred to in Isaiah $751; and II
in other parts of the Bible, from which
place he started in a conveyance, with
Turkish commission, across the des-
ert to Bagdad, which journey took him
more than a month, and the desert was
50 bare and hard that bicycle could
be ridden in q straight line over it for
day, unless ths tires We're punctured
with thorns of the cactus bush Then
he gave illustrations of the great old
city of Bagdad, which is sixty miles
from the site of ancient Babylon, AND
formerly had a population Of three
million, but now has only about oneN
hundred thousand, and there DIR.
Banks was American consul for some
time, and he showed a picture of all
very fine monument or obelisk, In a
cemetery theirs, Of some remarkable
man, and described the round, wicker
boats, in one of which he went on theN
river to what is believed to be the sita
of the Garden Of Eden, which he saidN
is certainly one of the most beautifuHA
places in the world. DR.. Banks gava&
pictures Of the desolate-looking fnounds#
in which are the ruins of the ancientb
city before they commenced to work on
! the excavations, and of a group OH
Arabs from whom one hundred aifdM
| twenty were chosen to work, also ofsa
the house they bupilt with a parapefN
on top fro which they could defendz
themselves with Winchester rifles, a5ads
a picture of his own room in Thu
house, in which was very ancieni
huts for the natives which were madeI
of sticks fastened in the ground, and
bent over at the top and then thatchedH
with reeds. They sunk a well thirtyi
feet, in which they got good water, aflla
then built UP the side with stones th7
first water being got from 1T on IN
| Christmas day DIR. Banks then went|&
on to describe the results Of the work
and gave pictures of tablets of baked
clay, with inscriptions on them, oi
which they found about three hundre6H
and fifty, also pictures Of much terra
| Gotta ware, SEALS lion standing even
PROSTATE man. Vases that may
have held the ashes of the dead, and 4 =
furnace in which the dead were burned
or cremated. They also found IT,
foundations Of a large palace, and a.
Inscription about Darius, Wdlo7i.
German scholars have been denyifiSsa1
that he existed Outside a wall theN#
found conieal stones like what DAVE
may have used in the sling, like largz
conical bullet. They got about thirty L
five different patterns Of bricks, som.
of which were all stamped with th w
nams of the builder, and what Is be
| lieved to be child's rattle and toy an
| fmal both of which are in ChicaR
now. OF course they found very mue i
else which we cannot allude to, but
is hoped that DR. Banks will lectli
again in New Haven, as very man M
would be interested in his lectures, KS
The returned to 1868 r, 18TH s.,
New York 80 -
We may mention that a citizefs
Nav SFIss,yen had a brother in Bagdad
turkish 4srabia, and in the cemeter
for T,,lroneany outside it is inscribed z
a tomb asacreed to the mineory
Samuel NJ. BrereSt22n. Surgeon Beng
Army and Agency sgyrgson a. Bagaa1
who died June 8, 1880. SNand W4o ws =
also British political agents = p0sEs
before he went as surgeon to- esie ~ ~
sulate general at Bagdad,. where
died of smallpox taken from a piir pE
tient, but Dr. Banks said that cholef
causes most of the deaths out ther
and that he had it.