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Ten years digging in Egypt. E-book. Formato Mobipocket W. M. Flinders Petrie   -  Skyline, 2016  - 

When, in the end of 1880, I first started for Egypt, I had long been preparing for the expedition; during a couple of years before that measuring instruments, theodolites, rope-ladders, and all the impedimenta for scientific work, had been prepared and tested. To start work under circumstances so different from those of any European country, and where many customary appliances were not to be obtained, required necessarily much prearrangement and consideration; though on the whole my subsequent experience has been that of decreasing the baggage, and simplifying one’s requirements.The first consideration on reaching Egypt was where to be housed. In those days there was no luxurious hotel close to the pyramids; if any one needed to live there, they must either live in a tomb or in the Arab village. As an English engineer had left a tomb fitted with door and shutters I was glad to get such accommodation. When I say a tomb, it must be understood to be the upper chamber where the Egyptian fed his ancestors with offerings, not the actual sepulchre. And I had three rooms, which had belonged to separate tombs originally; the thin walls of rock which the economical Egyptian left between his cuttings, had been broken away, and so I had a doorway in the middle into my living-room, a window on one side for my bedroom, and another window opposite for a store-room. I resided here for a great part of two years; and often when in draughty houses, or chilly tents, I have wished myself back in my tomb. No place is so equable in heat and cold, as a room cut out in solid rock; it seems as good as a fire in cold weather, and deliciously cool in the heat.

The chaldean oracles of the genesis. E-book. Formato Mobipocket George Smith   -  Skyline, 2015  - 

I believe that time will show the Babylonian traditions of Genesis to be invaluable for the light they will throw on the Pentateuch, but at present there are so many blanks in the evidence that positive conclusions on several points are impossible. I may add in conclusion that my present work is intended as a popular account, and I have introduced only so much explanation as seems necessary for the proper understanding of the subject. I have added translations of some parts of the legends which I avoided in my last work, desiring here to satisfy the wish to see them as perfect as possible; there still remain however some passages which I have omitted, but these are of small extent and obscure.

Le leggende babilonesi della Creazione (translated). E-book. Formato Mobipocket E.A. Wallis Budge   -  Skyline, 2014  - 

Le tavolette di argilla che descrivono le credenze dei Babilonesi e degli Assiri circa l'epoca della creazione sono state scoperte da Mr. Layard, Mormuzd Rassam e George Smith, assistente presso il Dipartimento di Antichità Orientali del british museum.Sono state trovati tra le rovine del palazzo di Ashur-bani-pal (668-626 a.C.) a Kuyunjik (Ninive), tra gli anni 1848 e 1876.Tra il 1866 e il 1870, il grande ritrovamento di circa 20.000 oggetti, che Rassam fece nel 1852, venne poi elaborato da George Smith, che identificò molte iscrizioni storiche di Shalmaneser II, Tiglatpileser III, Sargon II, Sennacherib, Esarhaddon, e altri re menzionati nella Bibbia, oltre a diverse composizioni letterarie.Nel corso di questo lavoro scoprì frammenti di varie versioni della leggenda del Diluvio, e porzioni di testi appartenenti a un'opera che trattava della Creazione.La pubblicazione dei testi e delle traduzioni dimostrano al di là di ogni dubbio, la correttezza dell'affermazione di Rawlinson del 1865, secondo cui "alcune parti delle Leggende della Creazione babilonesi e assire somigliano profondamente ai passaggi dei primi capitoli del libro della Genesi."