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Edgar James Banks
Bismya or The Lost City of Adab
New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1912

DS70.B2

Digital Table of Contents

Outside Front Cover
Title Page: Page i
Verso of Title Page: Page ii
Preface: Page v
Table of Contents: Page vii
List of Illustrations: Page xv
Chapter I. The Beginnings: Page 1
Chapter II. Struggles with the Turks: Page 8
Chapter III. Success: Page 24
Chapter IV. Crossing the Desert: Page 34
Chapter V. Along the Euphrates: Page 51
Chapter VI. In Glorious Bagdad: Page 68
Chapter VII. Among the El-Bedier: Page 85
Chapter VIII. To Bismya: Page 100
Chapter IX. The First Days at the Ruins: Page 112
Chapter X. Methods of Work: Page 121
Chapter XI. Troubles and Successes: Page 132
Chapter XII. The Ruins: Page 151
Chapter XIII. The Palace at Mound I: Page 159
Chapter XIV. The Cemetery: Page 173
Chapter XV. The Oldest Statue in the World: Page 185
Chapter XVI. Life in Camp: Page 207
Chapter XVII. The Temple: Page 234
Chapter XVIII. Treasures from the Temple: Page 251
Chapter XIX. To Koot and Return: Page 277
Chapter XX. With Our Guests to Fara: Page 289
Chapter XXI. The Semitic Quarter: Page 299
Chapter XXII. The Library: Page 316
Chapter XXIII. Miscellaneous Discoveries: Page 332
Chapter XXIV: Page 351
Chapter XXV. Summer in Bagdad: Page 360
Chapter XXVI. Back to Bismya: Page 374
Chapter XXVII. A Pilgrimage to the Sacred Cities: Page 389
Chapter XXVIII. Wandering in Babylonia: Page 409
Chapter XXIX. Where the Tigris and Euphrates Meet: Page 431
Chapter XXX. The History of Adab: Page 445
Index: Page 449


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