Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Nippur, or Explorations and Adventures on the Euphrates, Vol. 1: The Narrative of the University of Pennsylvania Expedition to Babylonia in the Years 1888-1890
I have called this temple the oldest temple in the world. We found that Nippur was a great and ?ourishing city, and its temple, the Temple of Bel, the religious centre of the dominant people of the world at a period as much prior to the time of Abraham as the time of Abraham is prior to our day. We discovered written records no less than 6000 years old, and proved that writing and civilization were then by no means in their infancy. Further than that, our explorations have shown that Nippur possessed a history extending back ward of the earliest written documents found by us, at least 2000 years.
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