History Of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Vol. 4

LibriVox recording of History Of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Vol. 4 by Gaston Maspero. (Translated by M. L. McClure.) Read in English by Elsie Selwyn History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria is the masterwork of one of the fathers of modern egyptology. This work, in twelve volumes, was translated from the French original, “Histoire ancienne des peuples de l'Orient classique” and published in 1903-1904. Maspero was a largely self-taught master of hieroglyphic translation. In November 1880, he was placed at the head of a French archeological mission, which deve