The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-12-29

rator since the beginning of the European war,
when DR.. ArnO Poebe left to join his regiment
at the German front. The Eckley g. Coke. Jr,
expeditions which began operations in Egypt in
1889 and have carriedthem on through various
years since even finding localities of the war
ridden land where thegcan still operate this year,
have sent back to tk museum an incalculable
treaSure-trove, not ont in tablets, but in all kinds
of articles dug up fronthe dirt layers of Biblical
and pre-Bhieal lanas, . A. ...-....--..
All this accumulatioa BIS ist had the attention
it deserved Doctor LaMlon's labOrs will be bent
toward arranging the hbylonian exhibit. The
collection is the largestin the world. No other
museum has such quality Of sacred Sumerian
documents, which makethis the most important
Babylonian collection irthe world. even though
It IS not so large as thatn the British museum.
The war which alread has done so much dam
age, bids fair to rob usOf this comparative re-
cent achievement. the bility to decipher these
tablets which tell of th lives and histories of
peoples who lived so mny hundred years ago.
Younger men, like POeH. are at the front and
may never come BACK; fer weknown Egypto-
lOgistS are old men.
Not enough young meIwil be left to carry on
the work of translatinethe ancient cuneiform
writings When the pre'nt scholars pass away
the achievement may die nth them and Sumerian-
Akkadian become again dead language, for not
enough young college me are proposing to take
up archaeology.
There is today no ended seat of Assyroogy
in any university. The University of Pennsyl-
vania museum is exertin every effort to secure
such an endowment thu, other interects of so
;rb ordar nc DOptOIl ,Inpdop'S bo on
couraged and helped to Try on a work similar
to his
Ecllley g. Coke Jr. diein PHILADELPHIA in Sep
tember last and left an dowment fund of $500
600 to carry on the worhe has been eouipping
expeditions to do in Egt 50 many years. But
one expedition can only satcht the surface of the
myriad hills there and t3conntless buried and
forgotten cities that lie heath them.
sour only hope of gettil the rest of the tablets
buried there" says Doctorangdon, SIS TO 90 back
to Nippur again and agaianddig for them" En-
dowments for these expedlnsare another of the
crying needs of scholars. he world at large will
lose if archaeological executions and research
have to be abandoned.
There is no doubt that general public appre-
GATES the work done by nouns and by scholars
TO Biblical students alonhere is inexhaustbe
pleasure and satisfaction be derived from facts
unearthed of Biblical an'feBlblcal peoples.
There is now complete reement among arch
biologists that Hammurabi that same Amraphel
of Genesis 14:1, a coniporary of Abraham.
From chronological inferes it follows that
Abraham may well havet tended school at the
temple in Nppur; nay, thine studied these very
books that are now in til diversity of Pennsyl-
vania museum lie may y read there the ac-
count Of the creation. Wpot! The dates dove
tail.
'Let me take out and CT one of those tab
let's" said q religious mifcenty in the Uni
versity Of Pennsylvania scum. 81 believe in
my heart that the hand abraham must have
held any or all of them nyI5,oOO years ago"