Excerpt from The Orient in Bible Times Throughout Bible Times the Orient was an ever expanding world of interest, including the civilized portions of Asia, Africa and Europe where they ap proached each other most nearly. Of those luxuriant millennia and fertile seats of customs and ideas the mightiest f ell away in the thought of mankind. Their faiths yielded to the dominance of what may be called in certain aspects the Hebraic religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Horus, Marduk, Asshur, Ormazd, Zeus and the sciences and philosophies as sociated with them have been absorbed or forgotten. 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.