Excerpt from A Guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian Antiquities The antiquities exhibited in the Babylonian Room and the Assyrian Galleries are the result of a series of excavations which have been prosecuted in Assyria and Babylonia during the last sixty-five years. The scene of these operations is represented in the map on page 2. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.